RFS: v4l2loopback (ITP:598241)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34:35AM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>v4l2loopback is a module, that allows you to create "virtual video 
>devices". normal (v4l2-capable) applications will read these devices as 
>if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read 
>from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another 
>application.

Yeah!  I need this very functionality.  Awesome!


>my original idea was to maintain this kernel-module in the
>pkg-multimedia collective.
>however, on IRC reinhard told me, that it would probably be a better 
>idea to keep it out of pkg-multimedia.
>Therefore i used collab-maint for the git repository:
>http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/v4l2loopback.git;a=summary
>
>I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>(and/or even better, become a permanent sponsor)

I don't do sponsorship.  How about teaming up instead?

@Reinhard: Why do you feel this is unsuitable for the Multimedia team?


>@jonas: yes it uses cdbs :-) however, i would have loved it if cdbs had
>more support for kernel-modules; there seems to be a project by frederic
>briere to add this (http://git.fbriere.net/cdbs-kernel-module.git/) but
>apparantly it's still not in upstream...

...and I would love to improve CDBS in this exact area - just needed a 
good candidate package to gain knowledge in this area. :-)


  - Jonas

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