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N900 as USB Webcam?
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the N900 front camera as a usb webcam for Skype. I've had a quick look around but people are talking about wireless streaming which i want to avoid if possible (cos it's far to complicated for me)
Just want simple usb webcam mode?:confused: |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
Nothings been made like that yet I'm afraid. You could try the network based ones like livecast.
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Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
interested in this too. looked it up a few months ago but nothing came up. ill keep a watch on this thread in hopes of good news.
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Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
Here's a strategy I tried to do but gave up on:
1. Stream cam's video over IP via gstreamer (many examples if you search) 2. On laptop create a "Virtual Camera" (a webcam identified by the laptop/pc) that captures this stream. 3. Use skype, gtalk etc... which would connect to your virtual camera and take the feed from there. I was able to do the first, the second step is tricky... Hope this helps. |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
Can you post some examples of gstreamer over IP as I have tried all the ones I could find from google and not had a lot of success with them.
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Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
i managed to get the n900 to stream a selection of jpg images to my PC, and got the PC to interpret that as a webcam (using someone elses drivers).
I never got a chance to swap the list of jpgs for a gstreamer stream but it shouldn't be too difficult... |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
i remember that i once had coneted a v4l device via Network to a windows device directly as twain input. No gstreamer, the device it self was adressed.
As far as i remember it was tricky and i never got it to work perfect (packetdrop was fatal as far as i remember) |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
I am able to take videocall to sip:500@ekiga.net
It is an echo test, so your audio and video (from the front camera) is routed back to you. Seems like videocalling is working, when *bad* proprietary (Skype) standards are not used. |
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works for me. |
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#Server But to use it as web-camera, you need to create virtual v4l2-device from it afaik, but I couldn't manage to get it working: Code:
$ gst-launch tcpclientsrc host=10.0.0.240 port=5000 ! multipartdemux ! jpegdec ! v4l2sink device=/dev/video0 |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
Create a stream to VLC using this : http://blog.pclewis.com/2010/02/stre...camera-to-vlc/
and then using Manycam (windows) to create a virtual webcam using a part of the screen (which is your VLC window) The first part will work for Linux to but i don' t think there is manycam for Linux. Not the best way, but it works |
Re: N900 as USB Webcam?
Trying this now... On Nokia N900, a script containing:
gst-launch v4l2camsrc device=/dev/video0 ! dsph264enc ! rtph264pay ! udpsink host=LaptopTargetIP port=5434 or gst-launch v4l2camsrc device=/dev/video0 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! multipartmux ! udpsink host=LaptopTargetIP port=5434 On laptop, installing v4l2loopback with module-assistant, to perform sudo modprobe v4l2loopback And then something like gst-launch udpsrc ! decodebin ! v4l2sink device=/dev/video0 or gst-launch udpsrc ! multipartdemux ! jpegdec ! decodebin ! v4l2sink device=/dev/video0 So far, problem is, libv4l2: error getting pixformat: Invalid argument And dummy camera on laptop is black. Thank you. Best wishes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Per aspera ad astra... |
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