I made a video producer add-on for a media kit that uses a video stream from any IP camera.
This allows you to use your smartphone with the DroidCam application as a webcam in Haiku.
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Ingenius!
Will the add-on be included with a standard Haiku install, or will it be a 3rd party addition?
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Wow! For reals, this is a much needed improvement for Haiku 
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WD-40 for prezident!
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I don’t know yet as there are several problems:
- For some reason I can’t add BTextParameter to BParameterWeb. It just doesn’t work, probably a bug in MediaKit. This is necessary to set the stream address.
- I use ffmpeg libraries directly to minimize latency, it doesn’t work well through MediaKit yet.
- Media Preflet does not restore the last Video Input setting after rebooting.
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Would it make sense to submit a patch to Gerrit nevertheless, maybe other devs have ideas for a solution or pick it up in the future?
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In MediaKit Default Theme BTextParameter was not implemented. I added support for them and this is what I got:
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Does this require any new libraries, or just existing ones (FFmpeg)? If only existing ones, then I’d vote that we include this within Haiku itself. 
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Nothing else. Only the system libraries and ffmpeg (avformat, avcodec, avutil, swscale).
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looks really really good
What a great projekt, Gerasim. Hope the Haiku team will this one include in Beta 3!
Very good.
Btw. do you use the free DroidCam dev. edition or the 5.-Euro Pro Version of DroidCam?
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The addon works with any similar application. At the moment I’m using IP Webcam - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=ru&gl=US. More features, more settings. Works much better than DroidCam.
PS: And yes, I used the free version of DroidCam.
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In theory would it work with an ordinary IP Cam?
Yes, of course. I checked on rtsp streams - it works fine.
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Very impressive, hello Gerasim, nice to see your picture!
Is the IP-add-on working?
Will it be in Haiku Beta 3?
Great work, it will have a great push to Haiku popularity.
Sound is working for me in Telegram by now! It is not! working in Windows 10!
Now Video would be a great step forward because of Corona too.
Your work is so extremely important for Haiku popularity!
The Haiku Inc. should give you a big, big bonus!
This is real Marketing! Make it work, make it visible, makle it usable!
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Very cool! I had a camera working on USB some time ago. This looks better.