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Piping video device over SSH or tcptunnel?

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Problem

I want to attach an analog camera to an old linux computer and directly pipe the /dev/video0 to another computer, where I can use it as a device again (so /dev/video0 should go to /dev/remote0, for example) (Reason for doing this is that the computer does not have enough power to encode the video) …

Error Output

ssh localhost dd if=/dev/video0 | mplayer tv://device=/dev/stdin

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Fix for: Piping video device over SSH or tcptunnel?

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You can use netcat. This will open a server on one host listening on port and sending uncompressed and unencrypted data from to any client that connects. You can receive the data on other host by invoking: where is the host sending data from .

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