[FFmpeg-user] Virtual camera

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Thu Jul 9 16:10:32 EEST 2020


Simon Brown (12020-07-09):
> I was wondering if there is any way to use FFmpeg to create a virtual
> camera for a PC/Mac from an H264 stream source.  I know FFmpeg can use
> directshow as an input device.

No, FFmpeg cannot do that.

You may be able to achieve that with the vivid video driver:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/media/v4l-drivers/vivid.html
and use ffmpeg to feed it, but I have not managed to get it to work. Not
a FFmpeg issue.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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