gphoto-dslr-role

Ansible role to install gPhoto so that you can use a DSLR as a webcam.

This role was derived from Ben Chapman's blog post

This was also designed as part of a desktop provisioning playbooks found here https://github.com/billwheatley/provision-desktop

Requirements

• A distribution with apt
• NOTE: dnf is coming soon (this role will not fail on dnf but not do anything either)

Role Variables

none

Example Playbook

- name: My Playbook
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: gphoto-dslr-role

Using gPhoto Examples

With your camera plugged into the USB port and switched on:

# Take a picture and download to current dir
gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download

# Find your correct video device
v4l2-ctl --list-devices |grep v4l2loopback -A 1

# Stream Video
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video4

# Stream Video with GPU acceleration
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -hwaccel nvdec -c:v mjpeg_cuvid -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video4

License

GPLv2

Author Information

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