From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, jani.nikula@linux.intel.com,
anisse@astier.eu, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@kernel.org>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>,
Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] media: Virtual camera driver
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 22:22:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260201202200.GX3374091@killaraus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12828248.O9o76ZdvQC@natalenko.name>
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.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-01 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-01 13:33 [RFC PATCH] media: Virtual camera driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-01 18:20 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-01 19:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-01 20:06 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-01 20:14 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-01 20:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-01 20:26 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-01 23:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-01 23:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-01 23:25 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-02 1:02 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-02-02 7:16 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-02 11:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-02 9:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-02 9:19 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-02 11:43 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-02 11:36 ` Gergo Koteles
2026-02-02 11:40 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-02 11:45 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-03 1:23 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-03 14:38 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-03 14:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-03 20:36 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-03 21:39 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-03 21:49 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-03 20:49 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-04-06 12:23 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-04-06 12:37 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-01 20:22 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2026-02-01 20:27 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2026-02-01 20:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-01 20:35 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-01 20:54 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-01 21:09 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-02 1:44 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-01 21:01 ` Laurent Pinchart
2026-02-01 22:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-03 9:50 ` Jani Nikula
2026-02-03 15:06 ` Laurent Pinchart
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