Yep, it's nice to spice up those Zoom calls sometimes. I've been playing music videos for my friends from a spare computer. Get & compile v4l2loopback and then

Yep, it's nice to spice up those Zoom calls sometimes. I've been playing music videos for my friends from a spare computer. Get & compile v4l2loopback and then it's just this bash script on any video file (which you get with youtube-dl first ;) #!/bin/bash mkfifo /tmp/pipe videofile=$1; (/opt/v4l2loopback/examples/yuv4mpeg_to_v4l2 /dev/video0 < /tmp/pipe & ); mplayer $videofile -vf scale=480:360 -vo yuv4mpeg:file=/tmp/pipe Of course, first rickrolling was a sexy webcam girl joining in the chat =D