Add support for USB grabbers and webcams ?

[penfold42]

Hey great work to all on the DX capture.

How hard would it be to add USB grabber and webcam support ? Basically a windows native reimplementation of Hyperion-v4l ?

[sabaatworld]

Someone pointed out that he was able to install Hyperion on windows using the "Ubuntu Subsystem". I guess once you do that you might be able to use the USB grabber with it.

Even if I were to add USB grabber support to this software, how would that help? I mean you will still need Hyperion running on RPi where you can already plug the grabber.

[penfold42]

Nope - WSL doesn’t do USB.
Serial devices and storage that just happen to be USB work.
This allows Hyperion to run and talk to network and serial led devices and this grabber works great for the desktop.

This just leaves USB capture and cameras as the last missing piece for a hyperion based system with no traditional linux system

[sabaatworld]

After doing a quick search on this, the task does not seem easy to do. Would require a lot of effort.