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GUYSTYLAZ is offline GUYSTYLAZ
2010-10-07 , 21:31
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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?
 

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jaimex2 is offline jaimex2
2010-10-07 , 22:15
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Nothings been made like that yet I'm afraid. You could try the network based ones like livecast.
 
cesarcesar is offline cesarcesar
2010-10-08 , 09:16
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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.
 
karimko is offline karimko
2010-10-08 , 09:25
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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.
 
Alex Atkin UK is offline Alex Atkin UK
2010-10-08 , 10:05
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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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danielz000 is offline danielz000
2010-10-08 , 12:27
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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...
 
ChoMar is offline ChoMar
2010-10-08 , 13:22
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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)
 
zimon is offline zimon
2010-10-08 , 13:39
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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.
 
kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-10-08 , 16:28
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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
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.
http://blog.pclewis.com/2010/02/stre...camera-to-vlc/

works for me.
 
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laasonen is offline laasonen
2010-10-08 , 17:02
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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
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.
I have been using this:
Code:
#Server
gst-launch v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! videoscale! video/x-raw-yuv,width=320,height=240 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! multipartmux ! tcpserversink host=10.0.0.240 port=5000
#Client
gst-launch tcpclientsrc host=10.0.0.240 port=5000 ! multipartdemux ! jpegdec ! autovideosink
Some distributions have gst-launch named gst-launch-0.10.

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
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Sink:v4l2sink0: Cannot identify device '/dev/video0'.
Additional debug info:
v4l2_calls.c(488): gst_v4l2_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4l2Sink:v4l2sink0:
system error: No such file or directory
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...
$
 
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