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SteveC
Asked: 2020-04-10 12:05:14 +0800 CST

Capture a video stream

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I have set up a Raspberry Pi with a camera module to stream a video like a surveillance camera. I would like to capture that stream to a video file with another device on the network running 19.04. This seems fairly straightforward as the video stream has an ip address on the LAN which I can access.

What methods could be used to automate this process and save the video files on a daily basis?

video streaming

1 Answers

  1. Let's create a virtual video lookpack device with v412 loopback: 

    sudo apt-get install v4l2loopback-dkms
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
sudo depmod -a

    Then send the video file into that device with 

    ffmpeg -i vid1.mp4 -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video2
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