Question / Help Input from stdin as a source?

[no_one]

Title says it all. I was just wondering if there is any way to treat stdin as a source. If there isn't, any known tricks / workarounds to create a similar result? My apologies if this question has already been asked, or if such a feature is on the roadmap and I wasn't able to find it.

As an aside, OBS Studio is looking incredible. Huge thanks to all who are contributing to the project!

 

[Radzaquiel]

By "stdin", do you mean you want your input (like your keystrokes) to be displayed on screen ?

 

[no_one]

By "stdin", do you mean you want your input (like your keystrokes) to be displayed on screen ?

Sorry, I suppose my question was a bit vague. I mean sending an audio / video stream over stdin.

Without going into too much detail, I'm trying to get a video feed from a source that doesn't support V4L (yes, it is unfortunately a Hauppauge), save it to its own file completely untouched, and then pipe it to OBS. So my final result would look like this for example:

$ cat /dev/video0 | tee untouched_feed.ts | obs -some_options

Or if OBS doesn't take the format (the stream is h.264 / aac):

$ cat /dev/video0 | tee untouched_feed.ts | ffmpeg -i - do_some_stuff - | obs -some_options

The only solution I've come up with so far is to pipe the stream to a player at the end, then capture the player window.

$ cat /dev/video0 | tee untouched_feed.ts | mpv -

This seems to work alright, but I was wondering if there was a way to cut out the player and just send it straight to OBS.

 

[dodgepong]

FFmpeg input sources will be added soon.

 

[Ranko Kohime]

As a temporary workaround, you might try opening the pipe in VLC (I BELIEVE that VLC can receive video from a pipe), and then capture the VLC window.