usb camera rtsp using vlc

1 connect usb camera to linux system

2 ls /dev/video*

3 in server side: cvlc v4l2:///dev/video4 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mjpg}:std{access=http,mux=mpjpeg,dst=127.0.0.1:13000}'

4 in client side: vlc http://127.0.0.1:13000

 

list camera devices

v4l2-ctl --list-devices

 

list format of camera

ffmpeg -f v4l2 -list_formats all -i /dev/video0

 

 

 

redirect usb camera from thin client to guest os

1. in guest os

insmod v4l2loopback.ko

assume v4l2loopback create /dev/video6 as a capture device.

2 in thin client

cvlc v4l2:///dev/video4 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=800,acodec=mp4a}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://127.0.0.1:13000/live.ts}'

assume usb camera capture device is /dev/video4

3 in guest os

ffmpeg -i rtsp://127.0.0.1:13000/live.ts -f v4l2  /dev/video6

guest os receive the data from thin client, send it to loopback device /dev/video6

4 in guest

vlc v4l2:///dev/video6

using vlc show the contents of /dev/video6