Thanks everybody so far. I just found v4l2loopback and also some examples with gestreamer. I will do some testing and see if I can get my use case done with that. Kind regards Michael Am 06.02.2013 14:57, schrieb Neuer User: > Hello > > I need to have access to my webcam from two applications (one is > "motion", the other a video sip phone). > > I have googled a lot, but only found vloopback as a method to access a > video device from two applications. However, vloopback seems to rely on > V4L1 which is mostly no longer compiled into the kernel by most distros. > Additionally, it does not seem to compile against newer kernels. > > So, my question ist: Is vloopback the right way to go for this > requirement? If yes, how to get it working? > > If not, what can I use to have two apps accessing the video stream from > the webcam? > > Thanks a lot for any help > > Michael > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html