btop Virtual Camera

NEW: This plugin now requires the @scrypted/btop plugin to install a suitable version of btop.

This plugin will perform best in a Docker or LXC Scrypted installation, since dependencies will be automatically installed. The @scrypted/btop plugin is required to download a compatible version of btop.

For local Scrypted installs on Linux, several system packages must be manually installed: xvfb, xterm, xfonts-base. The optional dependency fontconfig can be installed to enable changing fonts.

For local Scrypted installs on MacOS, several brew packages must be manually installed: xquartz, gnu-getopt, ffmpeg.

This plugin provides a virtual camera device that continuously streams output from the btop system monitoring tool. Under the hood, a virtual X11 display is created to run btop and xterm.

On Windows, Cygwin will be automatically installed to handle the virtual X11 display.

Advanced usage: Hardware-accelerated encoding

By default, this plugin requests that the Rebroadcast plugin use the FFmpeg arguments -c:v libx264 -preset -ultrafast -bf 0 -r 15 -g 60 for encoding H264 video from the virtual X11 display (libopenh264 is used on Windows instead of libx264). To enable hardware acceleration, copy the above into the "FFmpeg Output Prefix" settings for the stream, replacing libx264 with the hardware-accelerated encoder for your platform. Note that for Windows, the encoder must be one supported within Cygwin.