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		plorg on May 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using a "proper" camera as a webcam Only thing I find annoying about Droidcam is that I end up having to reinstall the audio and video drivers on Linux every week or so, either due to updates, restarts, or PulseAudio breaking.

bertman on May 18, 2022 [–]

In case it's the official Linux client that's giving you headaches, you could also have a look here: https://github.com/Kyuunex/better_droidcam_linux_client/blob...

Just use `adb`, `ffmpeg` and the `v4l2loopback` kernel module.

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