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Routing iPhone Video & Audio Input to Shadow for Custom Webcam

  • 29 May 2020
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Because of the awesome tech that Shadow enables us to use, I thought I’d see if I could route the audio and video from my iPhone to Shadow in order to use it as a webcam.  These days webcams have maybe 1080p resolution while the most recent iPhones provide access to 4K.

 

Thus far I’ve been able to get the Shadow to recognize the iPhone (it can pull it up in iTunes), but I haven’t yet been able to get it to work with any applications that would convert it into a live signal.

 

Any ideas - or has anyone tried anything similiar? 

I’d love to be able to use it for Zoom calls and other functions.  My reason for doing this is that my base computer these days is a Mac (because I travel).

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Best answer by Apocal 29 May 2020, 08:06

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baum2k
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Maybe this can help you: https://www.videolane.com/iphone-webcam/

But be aware! Normally for a usecase like this, your PC and your iPhone have to be in the same Wfi-Network. But I think he also mentioned that you can use it wired. 

You can try it out!

Let me know if it helped you!

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Thank you Baum2k.  I’ll check it out.

 

I’m used to hacking systems together to get things to work.

 

Actually the main problem I think right now is the upload speed.  Most connections have really strong download speeds these days, but much weaker upload speeds.

I was actually looking at the NDI connection the other day.  Zoom and some other software service providers are looking to integrate it into their products soon, so that’ll be great.  Until then NDI HX → OSB should be a good alternative.

It’s currently late, but I’m going to check this out NDI HX → OSB → Zoom as OSB might be the middle point I need.

Unfortunately it likely won’t use Shadow for this. <3 Shadow.

Lily
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Unfortunately, I do not believe this will work. The device/process might be too complicated for usb over ip to pass through. 

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Interestingly you can route the connection over (like you can use your iPhone through iTunes via Shadow).

The problem I ran into that’s making me table this, for now, is the bandwidth upload speeds.  I only have around 15 Mbps at the moment, and that’s not going to be sufficient to do 4K upload plus the other activities I have.

I’ll figure out how to get it to work through the local Macbook Pro.

Lily
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Interestingly you can route the connection over (like you can use your iPhone through iTunes via Shadow).

The problem I ran into that’s making me table this, for now, is the bandwidth upload speeds.  I only have around 15 Mbps at the moment, and that’s not going to be sufficient to do 4K upload plus the other activities I have.

Yes that is true, nowhere close to enough for a 4K camera unfortunately :sweat_smile:

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:disappointed_relieved:

Lily
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:disappointed_relieved:

aww, its okay. You’ll get there) 

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