It's possible to create devices in /dev that simulate webcams
using python to stream video from local dictory into these virtual devices?
For example, streaming a video to this virtual webcam device and it will be available on /dev/video3
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What do you mean by 'create multiple virtual cams'? – ewokx May 03 '22 at 03:25
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Ubuntu identifies the system as /dev/video1 and /dev/video2 when there are two webcams. So, without a webcam, need to create a virtual cam and stream the video to this. – sakthivel May 03 '22 at 03:41
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Do you mean you want to create devices in ```/dev``` that simulate webcams and stream video into these virtual devices? – ewokx May 03 '22 at 03:45
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I think you want `v4l2loopback` https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback – Mark Setchell May 03 '22 at 06:26
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@ewong Yeah you are correct. I want to simulate a web kind of thing. – sakthivel May 03 '22 at 09:05
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@MarkSetchell I think this will work for me. Let me try this – sakthivel May 03 '22 at 09:09