Create fake webcam with ffmpeg on Windows?

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ffmpeg has all kinds of options in it to record video off of a webcam, transcode video, send video up to streaming servers. Is there a way to loop over a file and make it look like a webcam?

I found this for Linux: https://gist.github.com/zburgermeiszter/42b651a11f17578d9787

I've search around a lot to try to find something for Windows, but have not yet found anything.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '17 at 13:36

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No, that's not part of FFmpeg so you'll need to create this "virtual video device" yourself. See e.g. How to create virtual webcam in Windows 10?.

answered Jul 22 '17 at 13:36

Mike Versteeg

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Thanks Mike. Exactly what I was looking for. – Brian Jul 23 '17 at 12:47
So after you create the virtual webcam in Windows, can you use ffmpeg to stream video to it as input? – cdalxndr Apr 23 '20 at 11:25
Depends on how you design your virtual camera. You can make it act as a bridge so to ffmpeg it looks like an output device. The one I'm using I approach by COM. – Mike Versteeg Apr 25 '20 at 06:10

Create fake webcam with ffmpeg on Windows?

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