Access to complex video devices with libcamera
Access to complex video devices with libcamera
[Development] Posted Jul 25, 2019 21:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet
Laurent Pinchart began his Open Source Summit Japan 2019 talk with a statement that, once upon a time, camera devices were simple pipelines that produced a sequence of video frames. Applications could control cameras using the Video4Linux (V4L) API by way of a single device node; there were "lots of knobs", but the overall task was straightforward. That situation has changed over the years, and application developers need more help; that is where the libcamera project comes in.