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		spac on Nov 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 16-inch MacBook Pro I was very excited by the idea. Ironically, it's only available on Windows.

ants_a on Nov 13, 2019 [–]

You can do that on Linux too:

    modprobe v4l2loopback
    gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video0

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