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VLC does not release webcam resource

rmmod bcm2835-v4l2 modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 Destroys and re-creates /dev/video0 Just ran into the same problem and that fixed it for me.
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Howto install UPnP/DLNA media renderer

Tested on a Raspberry Pi 4B with Raspbian Buster With Desktop 2020-02-13 updated on 2020-04-18. Raspbian Buster Lite 2020-02-13 updated on 2020-03-26. Updates done with sudo apt update && sudo ...
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Should wifi be turned off with wired connection

Normally if both Ethernet and Wifi are capable of supplying an internet connection to the Raspberry Pi the one with the lowest metric (independent of the internet speed) will be the one used by the Pi ...
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ERROR: *** unrecognised codec libav ***

You need to install the full libcamera-apps package, Raspberry Pi OS Lite only ships with libcamera-apps-lite. libav based functionality got removed from libcamera-apps-lite because it pulls in X11 ...
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Streaming Raspberry Pi camera to HTML webpage using picamera and Flask

I did some more reading, and don't think your approach will ever function as desired. Miguel Grinberg's article here outlines how to achieve Raspberry Pi camera streaming to Flask, and provides ...
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How can I stream my audio to my Sonos speakers?

It took me weeks to get a workable solution and in the process I read hundreds of webpages with ideas, instructions and software to download. Finally I was able to reject 90% of it and come up with a ...
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HD-SDI video out from Pi3?

There's no way to do this without using an external converter. The BCM2837 chip doesn't support an HD-SDI formatted output, which is fundamentally different to an HDMI formatted output. There's no ...
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Steam Link app network problems

I ran multiple tests on diverent connection setups. Now i want to provide my results. My setup: high-end gaming pc/workstation (called "Cronus"; connected via Ethernet cat 7 directly to the router; ...
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Dante enabled RaspberryPi

No! You need to specify what Dante product you mean. From the web page the products is either Windows or "We provide a ISO" that can be deployed in some virtualization platforms. And from ...
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RPI 3 Firefox Video plays but Sound is loud hiss

I found the solution: sudo apt-get install alsa-utils sudo apt-get install mpg321 sudo apt-get install lame sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835 Enabling Audio Output By default, the RPi audio output is set ...
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stream games/screen to kodi

There's a complete walkthrough here on using VLC to capture and stream the desktop of a PC to a second machine. At the time of writing there is a bug in versions subsequent to 2.1.5 which prevent this ...
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Setup microphone stream and turn your raspberry pi into a baby phone

I think you should try one of two things. Firstly if you want low latency, you should ditch the USB approach which has more latency then one of these GPIO header based sound cards. This can take you ...
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Raspberry pi with drone for live streaming

You might want to look into wifibroadcast which uses off-the-shelf WiFi hardware : Why normal wifi is a bad choice for FPV applications Association: Video transmitter and receiver need to ...
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Motion 4.0 Server working but not streaming

Fixed it. I had the streaming port and the HTTP control on the same port. I changed the control port to 8082 and then I could see the live stream on 8081
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Send audio from one Pi to another- Same network

Possibly the simplest way is to use sox: Install sox on both Pis: apt-get install sox Lets assume the Pi with the audio source is 198.51.100.2, and the Pi attached to the amplifier is 198.51.100.3 ...
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rplay error while loading shared libWFC.so

In my case (debian stretch + rpi3b+) this has fixed an issue: rpi-update sudo apt install libjpeg8 The problem maybe is that some of the libraries are renamed in Stretch, I think. You could also try ...
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Host MP3 streaming website on raspberry pi

There exist some projects out there to achieve something like what you want. Volumio is an example of that. Another one is RuneAudio. Depending on where you want to store your music, I would suggest ...
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Streaming audio from USB microphone (+video) through mobile data

It's a complicated project. You should take it to some parts. It's my suggestion and would be happy if other experts improve it. Domain name Anyone can buy a domain name. To do so, you visit a ...
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Adding external video source to RPi Cam Web Interface

Rpi Cam Web Interface cannot do that. UV4L can do what you want. Not only it can live stream the native or an USB camera to any browser via WebRTC thanks to the Rpi camera or UVC drivers, but can also ...
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FFMPEG from Raspberry Pi to YouTube plays too fast, then buffers?

So, I went home and tried the new command with success. The only issue now is some buffering on the YouTube side, which is out of the scope of this question. The below command works fine, replace "...
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How to stream audio from raspberry pi to android phone?

I'm the SoundWire lead developer. If you're running SoundWire Server as root, try running as a regular user. If that doesn't help then there's a problem with your audio configuration. Check that pulse ...
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How to stream audio from raspberry pi to android phone?

My suggestion would be to use a DLNA server on the Raspberry Pi and a DLNA renderer on the android phone. This is also sometimes know as upnp ... a upnp server which live streams your Pi audio and the ...
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handle two way of 1080p, 60fps camera feed to WIFI network in low latency?

Really, really, really unlikely. For starters, you are talking about two cameras, which presumably are going to be attached to the USB ports, and then a wifi adapter as well on the same bus (since ...
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Can I save 4K video using RPI model 3 to SD card or stream them out via usb or ethernet?

No on every count I think. It's just not enough of a machine to pull off 4K video at usable frame rates. The Pi camera module relies on hardware H.264 compression on the main Pi board to get the raw ...
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Raspberry Pi : listen online radio streaming

Yes, you can use command line tools to play internet radio streams. I have used omxplayer to play internet radio streams with no NDMI/video head. I created certain shell scripts for station choices ...
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Is PiCAST supposed to work like ChromeCast? If not, then which project would?

I am using simple HTTP protocol to connect to my RPi. So, if you can have the IP of your PI, it will work. On RPi, am running this python service. I am planning to add more security to this later. ...
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how to run netflix on a raspberry pi 3?

Here are easy directions for doing this in 3 steps: https://blog.vpetkov.net/2019/07/12/netflix-and-spotify-on-a-raspberry-pi-4-with-latest-default-chromium/ NOTE: Blog post keeps latest working ...
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how to run netflix on a raspberry pi 3?

Recent releases of Pi OS come with a WideVine implementation in a package called libwidevinecdm0. It has to be installed with apt. Check that WideVine is properly used in Chromium by visiting chrome://...
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How can I stream video from an HDMI device over a local network?

The moment you add an HDMI input device to a Raspberry Pi the complete setup becomes very expensive. Using off-the-shelf HDMI-over-IP devices is a better solution. "Ludicrously cheap HDMI capture for ...
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playing music from stream

I don't quite understand "playing music from a stream". Is it a stream like Twitch stream or is it a URL of a .mp3/.wav file? If it is the first type, could you please provide me the URL? ...
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