On openSUSE Tumbleweed, you need to install droidcam
and v4l2loopback-kmp-default
(should be selected automatically). In addition, you may need to install v4l2loopback-utils
to have some useful commands.
However, v4l2loopback-autoload
may also be installed, which comes with a default module option to provide the Virtual Camera functionality of obs-studio
. We need to uninstall this package and better add a lock on it.
sudo zypper rm v4l2loopback-autoload
sudo zypper al v4l2loopback-autoload
Then we need to create the following files to use our module options.
# /etc/modules-load.d/v4l2loopback.conf
v4l2loopback
# /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback.conf
options v4l2loopback devices=2 exclusive_caps=1,1 card_label="OBS Virtual Camera,DroidCam"
After that, you need to reload your module and create your initramfs:
sudo modprobe -r v4l2loopback
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
sudo dracut -f
It create two loopback devices: /dev/video0
and /dev/video1
(by default, obs-studio
takes /dev/video0
). You can check it's information by use this command:
v4l2-ctl --info --device /dev/video0
v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext --device /dev/video0
To launch droidcam
, use this command:
droidcam -dev=/dev/video1 -size=1920x1080
You can edit your application property to avoid using terminal.
To check your camera, you may use mpv
or other player.
mpv --profile=low-latency --untimed av://v4l2:/dev/video0