I want to enable my screen as a video capture drive, so I can share (stream) my desktop screen instead my webcam.
I'm using Mint 12 (based on Ubuntu).
There are several software that help you doing that. For example:
And for another list of available software check that post: http://ostatic.com/blog/six-top-screen-capture-tools-for-linux#intro
Hope that this help.
VLC should, in theory be able to take a video stream from your desktop- with "screen://" as your input option and output it to another streaming source. However whether if will work with the software you have in mind would depend on what that software is.
Something like this should work:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -framerate 30 -video_size 1920x1080 -i :0.0+1920,0 -f v4l2 -vf scale=3840:-1 -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 /dev/video1
Just do sudo apt install ffmpeg
first, then you'll probabbly have to create /dev/video1
, so touch /dev/video1 && sudo chmod 666 /dev/video*