DSLR as webcam

Bazzite
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I’m coming from arch, just installed bazzite on my gaming machine.

Previously I had a setup in which I could use v4l2loopback, ffmpeg and gphoto2 to use my DSLR camera as a webcam, i.e:

gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 4 -f v4l2 /dev/video0

Problem is installing the required software since Bazzite is an immutable OS. I’d appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction

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Hey,

You could try to use distrobox to install those packages in one and give it a test

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Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve figured it out

As for installing other things I did rpm-ostree install gphoto2 --reboot

More info here: How to use the command 'rpm-ostree' (with examples)

Bazzite comes with v4l2loopback by default so I can just do sudo modprobe v4l2loopback before executing the command above and it worked