Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console

Re:Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console by tapoxi on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:17PM (#33060379)

Wow the setup for Linux seems to be painfully more complicated than macOS/Windows. Why is that the case?

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Re:Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console by laumars on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:48PM (#33060630)

You can follow the same steps in Linux as you did for macOS too (OBS is also available for Linux, in fact that how I personally run OBS).

The reason the Linux instructions are more verbose is because Linux also supports writing directly to a virtual camera via the command line. Something that’s not so easy to do with macOS. So you can save yourself a lot of lag and system resources by doing so rather than using OBS.

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Re:Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console by insulfrable on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:18PM (#33060385)

... he asks, rhetorically.

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Re:Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console by juunpp on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:39PM (#33060565)

And leaves satisfied after dropping his own grain of corporate propaganda. A most fruitful day.

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Re:Matrix-webcam displays your webcam video feed in the console by marginalia_nu on Sunday October 02, 2022 @05:26PM (#33060445)

Yeah for whatever reason webcam tooling on Linux is really dismal.

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