From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57475 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754572Ab3BFPOQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:14:16 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U36hk-0008Bm-RL for linux-media@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:14:32 +0100 Received: from 84-72-11-174.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.72.11.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:14:32 +0100 Received: from auslands-kv by 84-72-11-174.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:14:32 +0100 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org From: Neuer User Subject: Re: Replacement for vloopback? Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:14:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks everybody so far. I just found v4l2loopback and also some examples with gestreamer. I will do some testing and see if I can get my use case done with that. Kind regards Michael Am 06.02.2013 14:57, schrieb Neuer User: > Hello > > I need to have access to my webcam from two applications (one is > "motion", the other a video sip phone). > > I have googled a lot, but only found vloopback as a method to access a > video device from two applications. However, vloopback seems to rely on > V4L1 which is mostly no longer compiled into the kernel by most distros. > Additionally, it does not seem to compile against newer kernels. > > So, my question ist: Is vloopback the right way to go for this > requirement? If yes, how to get it working? > > If not, what can I use to have two apps accessing the video stream from > the webcam? > > Thanks a lot for any help > > Michael >