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Good luck piping your skype call into ffmpeg

• kbenson 9y ago
  If every window had one or more associated files in /dev which corresponded to it's audio and video output, it wouldn't necessarily be that hard. You wouldn't even have to worry about actually having bits there until someone was listening, because the OS knows when someone opens a file, and could send the appropriate message to the window system to start sending the video associated with that window to the pipe as well. There's no reason why a desktop window application could not supply audio and video to, or receive audio and video from, ffmpeg or even a chained command that might just include ffmpeg at some step.
  • striking 9y ago
    I wonder if some sneaky LD_PRELOAD hacks could make this possible.
• jcelerier 9y ago
  Dunno about skype but video4linux exposes devices such as /dev/video0 where you can read / write the raw video stream so...