Re: [RFC PATCH] media: Virtual camera driver

[Oleksandr Natalenko]

Hello.

On neděle 1. února 2026 21:06:49, středoevropský standardní čas Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > There is a notable user base for v4l2-loopback. It is the defacto choice
> > for streaming phone cams.
> 
> This will then likely face the same hurdles as v4l2-loopback, the main
> one being that camera support should be upstreamed with proper drivers
> instead of a closed-source userspace daemon.
> 
> For phone cameras, the way forward upstream is libcamera. Until kernel
> drivers for ISPs are available, the soft ISP is a stop-gap solution. It
> recently gained GPU acceleration support (with work to improve image
> quality with additional algorithms ongoing).

My use-case for v4l2loopback is to stream a webcam from one machine to another (with the help of ffmpeg). Is this covered by something other than v4l2loopback now?

Thank you.

-- 
Oleksandr Natalenko, MSE

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