On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 21:19, Moritz Barsnick <barsn...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 13:38:27 +0100, Simon Brown wrote: > > 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. > > On Linux, the v4l2loopback device can be used to do this, I have had > success with this. I have also read of akvcam, but not tested it. > > The latter is a project by webcamoid, which is also implemented for Mac > and Windows. Perhaps it's worth looking what technology they use on > those two platforms, as those were the ones you named. Under Windows > it's probably a DirectShow filter. > > If you use webcamoid directly, it's no longer ffmpeg though: > https://github.com/webcamoid/webcamoid/wiki/Virtual-camera-support > > Cheers, > Moritz > > Thanks for all the suggestions, tried webcamoid earlier today and the lag was enormous (15 seconds?) so not sure that's a solution. I'll test out some of the other suggestions and go from there. If I find a workable solution I'll post back here. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".