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		tetris11 on July 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turn your phone into a wireless webcam I used to have a nice bash script I could call from my Nokia N900 that would pipe gstreamer over ssh, execute a script on the remote desktop PC to create a new video device and use the phone cam as a webcam. Dangerous, root-level stuff but it worked a dream.

skykooler on July 7, 2020 [–]

Can still do basically the same with SailfishOS, though for some reason you need to open an audio context before starting gstreamer first.

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