Using a DSLR Camera As a Webcam on OBS Linux [How-To]
It's been more than half a year since I've switched to Linux. I have learned a lot of new things.
This is one of those things.
Just a heads-up, you can also use your camera as a dedicated webcam for Teams or other applications, but how to do that is not part of this video.
TL;DR: if you do not want to learn how things work, you can just copy and paste this to your terminal after setting up:
gphoto2 --stdout --set-config liveviewsize=0 --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 -s:v 1920x1080 -r 30 /dev/video0
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - INTRO
00:44 - What Are These Things?
01:22 - gphoto2
01:50 - Installation
02:24 - Tests
04:21 - Commands/Explanation
05:55 - Setting Things Up
06:21 - A Few Caveats...
07:42 - Simple Bash Script
08:15 - Conclusion
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NECESSARY LINKS:
What is gphoto2?: https://github.com/gphoto/gphoto2
gphoto2 Controls: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/
gphoto2 Manual: http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/ref-...
gphoto2 List of Supported Devices: http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2...
What is libgphoto2?: https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2
What is v4l2loopback?: https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
What is V4L?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video4L...
What is ffmpeg?: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html
ffmpeg Documentation: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
What is rmmod?: https://man.archlinux.org/man/rmmod.8.en
What is modprobe?: https://man.archlinux.org/man/modprob...
What is ls?: https://man.archlinux.org/man/ls.1.en
What is asterisk *?: https://www.cse.msu.edu/Resources/Fac...
What is stdout?: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unders...
What is pipe | ?: https://opensource.com/article/18/8/i...
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