[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)]

Hi Alex,

On 01/21/2014 02:39 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
> I searched for this once upon a time but now I can't find anything (may
> just be tired and can't conjure up the proper search incantations).  I'm
> looking for a daemon that can pull in an MJPEG stream from an IP camera
> (or other net source) and create a virtual /dev/videoX device for it
> that can then be used by other software.  I wanted to be able to do some
> video conferencing and just switch from one camera to another by
> changing the camera feed source in the conference software.  The cameras
> themselves would be regular IP cameras scattered about.

The "vivi" kernel module should be able to do this for you, with the
help of a userspace program to push the camera video into it.

(I've never used it myself, though.)

Phil