How to write on a virtual webcam in Linux?
Well, actually this is possible. A quick and dirty way to do this is to use WebcamStudio.That will create a new video device (e.g., /device/video2) that other programs see as a normal video device and can take its input from desktop, so you just set it up to capture a part of the screen that OpenCV's output is shown there.
A better but more technical way is to use the V4L2 loop back module. This way you can simply pipe the output of OpenCV to the module which is seen as a regular video device by the other programs. See the readme at the bottom of this page:https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopbackand the wiki page:https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/wikifor more information.
Hope that helps.
You can also use a combination of v4l2loopback, OBS Studio and obs-v4l2sink.
Use OBS Studio to capture video from your device, then obs-v4l2sink is a small plugin that writes output into /dev/video* of your choice.
