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scrcpy is awesome! Native support for streaming the camera directly (vs. streaming a screen capture of the camera app) is coming soon: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/4213
For folks willing to build from source, I have an additional commit on top of the PR (linked in the comments) that enables support for Android's constrained high speed capture mode, allowing 120fps/240fps camera streaming. Not the most useful for meetings, but enables things like capturing high frame rate mixed reality VR footage. As far as I'm aware, there's no other Android webcam app, proprietary or open source, that can do anything above 60fps.
On Linux you can use libimobiledevice’s (1) idevicebackup2 to backup an iOS device.
1: https://libimobiledevice.org/
Quite tangential, but during lockdown I was looking for a way to use my iPhone as a webcam and came across this project:
https://vdo.ninja/
It started out as being a means to send a video feed into OBS[1], which is how I rigged the webcam input, but as the project grew, it expanded to being a way for me to spin up desktop video and audio sharing in a browser, sorta like Zoom, etc. This let me run virtual movie nights with people remotely.
Whilst it's possible to use it via the 'create a room' interface, you can also do it all via URL parameters which I found much more flexible and robust. See here[2].
You create source and recipient URLs and then it just automagically makes it all work via WebRTC. I was able to for example make a source that captured my VLC window and sent out the video and audio, and then two destination URLs which received the source video and audio, but also sent their own audio to one another. This meant we could hear the and watch a movie but also talk to each other via our microphones.
I've got no relation to this project besides thinking it's really awesome.
[1]: Used for streaming your computer online, e.g. on Twitch. https://obsproject.com/
[2]: https://docs.vdo.ninja/master/how-does-it-work
Quite tangential, but during lockdown I was looking for a way to use my iPhone as a webcam and came across this project:
https://vdo.ninja/
It started out as being a means to send a video feed into OBS[1], which is how I rigged the webcam input, but as the project grew, it expanded to being a way for me to spin up desktop video and audio sharing in a browser, sorta like Zoom, etc. This let me run virtual movie nights with people remotely.
Whilst it's possible to use it via the 'create a room' interface, you can also do it all via URL parameters which I found much more flexible and robust. See here[2].
You create source and recipient URLs and then it just automagically makes it all work via WebRTC. I was able to for example make a source that captured my VLC window and sent out the video and audio, and then two destination URLs which received the source video and audio, but also sent their own audio to one another. This meant we could hear the and watch a movie but also talk to each other via our microphones.
I've got no relation to this project besides thinking it's really awesome.
[1]: Used for streaming your computer online, e.g. on Twitch. https://obsproject.com/
[2]: https://docs.vdo.ninja/master/how-does-it-work
Use a vnc client on your android device and setup a virtual monitor on your desktop that is really a vnc server.
I know how to do that with Sway and swayvnc on wayland, as well as with xorg.
https://superuser.com/questions/1434779/using-a-tablet-as-a-...
https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/k1zl41/thank_you_de...
This is particularly helpful to people using asahi linux and wanting to connect an external monitor. That can be done with something as simple as a raspberry pi.
EDIT: apparently this project help achieving the same thing on different OS but using webRTC and a browser:
https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen