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Re:Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated by leni536 on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:21PM (#31371571)
Sure, but then a libcamera based service could expose a single virtualized v4l2 device with all the necessary high level controls, and normal legacy apps could use that.
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Re:Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated by megous on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:13PM (#31372589)
How? Dynamic linker hacks don't count.
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Re:Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated by leni536 on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:01PM (#31452456)
The same way OBS can expose a virtual camera? I believe it's the v4l2-loopback driver, but I'm not sure.
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