media-libs/libcamera

A complex camera support library.

Versions

Slot	Version	Repository	Platforms
0	scm	media	~amd64	arm?	~armv7	~armv8	x86?
0	0.7.0	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	( ( ( 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 ) python_abis:3.14? ( dev-lang/python:3.14 ) ) ) ( 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/libglvnd dev-libs/libyaml dev-util/elfutils media-libs/sdl2-compat 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
3.14	Use Python ABI 3.14
3.9	Use Python ABI 3.9