On Tue, 5 May 2020, Ben Koenig wrote:
What did you search for?
A comparison of the two drivers.
v4l2 is pretty well known as the driver stack in linux for webcams. If you
just search that you'll get an answer that makes sense.
I did find this. If I were to stream videos using obs I'd selec
What did you search for? v4l2 is pretty well known as the driver stack in
linux for webcams. If you just search that you'll get an answer that makes
sense.
xshm is a little more obscure. It's referring to the specific API used by
OBS to retrieve frames from the X server. This is one of those momen
On Tue, 5 May 2020, Ben Koenig wrote:
V4L2 is the standard way to access webcams on linux.
xshm used by obs to pull video frames direct from X11 for desktop capture.
Thanks, Ben. Then I do want xshm so when I display a beamer slide
presentation in a window I can limit obs to capture only that.
V4L2 is the standard way to access webcams on linux.
xshm used by obs to pull video frames direct from X11 for desktop capture.
On Tue, May 5, 2020, 9:21 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
> VokoscreenNG does not support displaying a slide show so I'm starting to
> configure and learn obs-studio. The input
VokoscreenNG does not support displaying a slide show so I'm starting to
configure and learn obs-studio. The input devices choices for screen capture
offer xshm and v4l2. My web search for the differences between the two (xshm
vs v4l2) found nothing relevant. Please point me to a source where I ca
