media-libs/libcamera

A complex camera support library.

Versions

Slot Version Repository Platforms
0 scm media ~amd64 arm? ~armv7 ~armv8 x86?
0.5.1 media ~amd64 arm? ~armv7 ~armv8 x86?

Metadata

Homepage https://libcamera.org
Summary A complex camera support library
Description Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific closed-source solution. To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
Dependencies (
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        (
            build+fetch:
            sys-apps/util-linux[>=2.13_pre2]
            dev-scm/git[>=1.6.0][curl]
            net-misc/curl[ssl(+)]
        )
    )
    (
        build+run:
        python? (
            python_abis:3.9? (
                dev-lang/python:3.9
            )
            python_abis:3.10? (
                dev-lang/python:3.10
            )
            python_abis:3.11? (
                dev-lang/python:3.11
            )
            python_abis:3.12? (
                dev-lang/python:3.12
            )
            python_abis:3.13? (
                dev-lang/python:3.13
            )
        )
    )
    (
        build:
        sys-devel/ninja
    )
    (
        build:
        sys-devel/meson[>=1.4.0]
    )
    (
        build:
        dev-lang/python:*[>=3]
        dev-python/Jinja2[python_abis:*(-)?]
        dev-python/PyYAML:0[python_abis:*(-)?]
        dev-python/ply[python_abis:*(-)?]
        virtual/pkg-config
        doc? (
            app-doc/doxygen
            dev-python/Sphinx
            media-gfx/graphviz
        )
        providers:libressl? (
            dev-libs/libressl:*
        )
        providers:openssl? (
            dev-libs/openssl:*
        )
        python? (
            dev-libs/pybind11[python_abis:*(-)?]
        )
        build+run:
        dev-libs/gnutls
        dev-libs/libevent:=
        dev-libs/libyaml
        (
            providers:libunwind? (
                dev-libs/libunwind
            )
            providers:llvm-libunwind? (
                sys-libs/llvm-libunwind
            )
            dev-util/elfutils
        )
        media-libs/SDL:2
        x11-dri/libdrm
        compliance-tool? (
            dev-cpp/gtest
        )
        gstreamer? (
            dev-libs/glib:2
            media-libs/gstreamer:1.0[>=1.14.0]
            media-plugins/gst-plugins-base:1.0[>=1.14.0]
        )
        gui? (
            media-libs/tiff:=
            x11-libs/qtbase:6[>=6.2][gui]
        )
        providers:ijg-jpeg? (
            media-libs/jpeg:=
        )
        providers:jpeg-turbo? (
            media-libs/libjpeg-turbo
        )
        providers:eudev? (
            sys-apps/eudev
        )
        providers:systemd? (
            sys-apps/systemd
        )
        tracing? (
            dev-util/lttng-ust
        )
    )
)
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Licences (
    GPL-2
    LGPL-2.1
)

Choices

OPTIONS

compliance-tool Build the compliance test tool lc-compliance
doc Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
gstreamer Adds support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media)
gui Build the Qt5 camera GUI (qcam)
python Adds support/bindings for the Python language
tracing Build with support for lttng based tracing

providers

eudev Use eudev as the udev provider
ijg-jpeg Use Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg as the JPEG provider
jpeg-turbo Use libjpeg-turbo as the JPEG provider
libressl Use LibreSSL as the SSL provider
libunwind Use libunwind as the unwinder provider
llvm-libunwind Use llvm-libunwind as the unwinder provider
openssl Use OpenSSL as the SSL provider
systemd Use systemd as the syslog/udev/logind provider

python_abis

3.10 Use Python ABI 3.10
3.11 Use Python ABI 3.11
3.12 Use Python ABI 3.12
3.13 Use Python ABI 3.13
3.9 Use Python ABI 3.9