Linux Tips - Record Video from USB Camera in WSL (2022)

Record a video using a USB camera or webcam in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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00:00 Introduction
00:46 USBIPD-WIN
01:31 Attach a USB device to WSL
03:03 Build WSL2 kernel with usb-camera driver
06:43 Using custom kernel in WSL2 (.wslconfig)
07:22 Attach and use the USB camera to WSL
08:18 Record video in WSL
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💻 Connect USB devices on WSL:

💻 WSL2 Linux Kernel:

📝 Commands and configs:

▶️ Use Ext4 USB Drive in WSL:

▶️ Window Docking on Windows 11 & 10:

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#camera #usb #wsl

[cinvoke]

You're a freaking legend. I tried everything before kernel build. ty!

[serenefeng]

Worked for me on a RealSense camera too. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[manofvulture]

Very helpful. Thanks!

I've encountered an issue while executing `sudo make -j$(nproc)`: 'bc is not found'

I had to do a `sudo apt install bc` because bc was not installed on my system.

[vigneshedithal]

This was super helpful for my ROS project, thank you!

One thing I will note is that I had to chown the /dev/video* from root to my username and then run guvcview instead of sudo guvcview to make it work.

[imprimindoideiasemd]

beautiful! it was super helpful to me. I was struggling to add a usb camera to klipper inside WSL. Now i can monitor my 3D printing devices properly! After that i've installed crownest that did the job. Thank you!

[penglu]

Thanks man, it works good! Love your guide

[natedog]

Worked for me. Thank you so much man it would've taken me forever to figure this shit out on my own lmao

[mfs]

thanks man you are the best coder of the world

[hahungle]

Thanks man, it was super helpful! Love your videos!

[rfreh_iwnl]

thank you very much, it worked flawlessly

[Baylison]

Im getting "ls: cannot access '/dev/video*' : no such file or directory" anyone fix this issue?

[NaipiaGaming]

Was fun but the fact that I had to build a linux kernel in order to get my webcam to work speaks a lot

[__-ydpm]

Excuse me sir. When I followed all your steps and reached 7:30 I tried ls -al /dev/video* but it still say cannot access. What may be the possible cause to this?

[ahmadalkhateeb]

I have followed the tutorial, and rebuilt the kernel but I still can't use my usb camera on linux. I can see /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, but I can never access it with any program (guvcview, cheese, opencv). The closest I got was after changing the ownership and permissions of the /dev/video*, if I try to run some example cv2.VideoCapture code I can see the light on the camera light up, but nothing happens, and after a few seconds it times out. Any idea what's wrong?

[ElinLiu]

Cool!
I will make a real practice on my machine

[yashdhakade]

Thank you very much for this tutorial, but in my pc i am able to run my webcam in wsl but after that i am facing a new ereor that says ""V4L2_CORE: Could not grab image (select timeout): Resource temporarily unavailable Segmentation fault"" Please help me to debug this 😢

[khoroshyypetro]

Interesting video. My webcam works with gucview but no with cheese or opencv .... Any idea why?

[marco]

Hi the camera seems working with " sudo guvcview", but when i try to capture the video from open cv, the camera light up, but after a while it output timeout and does not capture any video, any Idea why?

[Slybabyfox]

Could you please illustrate how to enable Realtek 8811cu wireless USB card in WSL? I have tried to config the latest 5.15 kernel and 6.1 kernel but still can't make it work.

[matheus]

Made this can I use the webcam with python and opencv ?