Re: [RFC PATCH] media: Virtual camera driver

[Laurent Pinchart]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 08:16:36AM +0100, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> On pondělí 2. února 2026 2:02:14, středoevropský standardní čas Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > On pondělí 2. února 2026 0:17:20, středoevropský standardní čas Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > No. At the machine with the camera, obs can read from a V4L2 input,
> > > > generate a mpeg TS stream, and listen to a UDP port (for instance). 
> > > > 
> > > > At the remote machine, you can just pass the URL to ffmpeg.  
> > > 
> > > I can't, I have to feed the stream into Firefox somehow for it to
> > > see the stream as a virtual webcam.
> > 
> > Motioneye could be used on such scenario. It has a proper web
> > interface, allows multiple users to watch, has login control accepts
> > multiple cameras.
> 
> I still don't get it how this will help with using a webcam from one
> machine in google meet on another machine, sorry.

I don't get it either :-)

Please see my reply to Gergo in this mail thread for an example of how
to create a virtual video source for PipeWire using GStreamer.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart