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		leni536 on May 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complica... Sure, but then a libcamera based service could expose a single virtualized v4l2 device with all the necessary high level controls, and normal legacy apps could use that.

megous on May 13, 2022 [–]

How? Dynamic linker hacks don't count.

leni536 on May 20, 2022 | [–]

The same way OBS can expose a virtual camera? I believe it's the v4l2-loopback driver, but I'm not sure.

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