[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 07:45:31 EST 2014


Cool! I had never seen that one.

Linux is awesome!
On Jan 21, 2014 7:36 AM, "Phil Turmel" <philip at turmel.org> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On 01/21/2014 02:39 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
> > I searched for this once upon a time but now I can't find anything (may
> > just be tired and can't conjure up the proper search incantations).  I'm
> > looking for a daemon that can pull in an MJPEG stream from an IP camera
> > (or other net source) and create a virtual /dev/videoX device for it
> > that can then be used by other software.  I wanted to be able to do some
> > video conferencing and just switch from one camera to another by
> > changing the camera feed source in the conference software.  The cameras
> > themselves would be regular IP cameras scattered about.
>
> The "vivi" kernel module should be able to do this for you, with the
> help of a userspace program to push the camera video into it.
>
> (I've never used it myself, though.)
>
> Phil
>
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