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With "Web camera passthough", I have a limitation: it only works with 1 VM.
If other VM accesses the same webcam, it gets nothing. "white picture".
Because webcam is a read-only device, I think it should be possible to lift this limitation.
Web camera passthough limitation: only 1 guest
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Technologov
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socratis
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Re: Web camera passthough limitation: only 1 guest
Was that ever possible? Even with RO devices? Like CDRs?
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Re: Web camera passthough limitation: only 1 guest
No it was not. I don't even know how you could do this as passthrough which as I understand it is one-to-one. Only shared resources can do this.socratis wrote:Was that ever possible? Even with RO devices? Like CDRs?
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Martin
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Re: Web camera passthough limitation: only 1 guest
Every webcam I saw for quite some time wasn't read-only, they all had some kind of control channel for exposure, resolution, focus etc.
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Re: Web camera passthough limitation: only 1 guest
Besides which, the nature of the device is connection based, i.e. streaming implies a long lasting and possibly I/O intensive connection.