Re: [RFC PATCH] media: Virtual camera driver

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2026 at 09:14:54PM +0100, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> 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?

On the transmitting side I assume you don't use v4l2loopback. On the
receiving side, the recommened option is PipeWire.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart