How to receive "v4l2-ctl --stream-to-host" stream from a machine on the same LAN on said host for use with, e.g., video conferencing software?
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There is an example that streams a webcam to another computer by piping a V4L2 stream into netcat (
v4l2-ctl --stream-to - | nc
), and this works, but it feels redundant when v4l2-ctl --stream-to-host [:]
exists.
I was able to capture and display the --stream-to-host
stream via qvidcap -p
as described in the v4l2-ctl
man page example section , but am stumped when trying to pipe it into v4l2-loopback
(via FFmpeg) for use with video conferencing software on the receiving machine.
I have tried various combinations of parameters to v4l2-ctl
, including --stream-from-host
, --stream-loop
, --stream-poll
and --stream-mmap
, but v4l2-ctl --help-all
is too terse for me. Ironically, I was able to receive a stream (albeit garbled beyond recognition) when receiving with netcat and piping it to ffmpeg (nc -l | ffmpeg -f v4l2 /dev/video0
.
How can I make an incoming stream created via v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-to-host [:]
available to video conferencing software via v4l2-loopback
?
Asked by Alex
(131 rep)
Feb 13, 2022, 12:41 AM