Libcamera

Last updated
libcamera
Developer Laurent Pinchart as lead architect [1]
Stable release
0.5.2 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (7 August 2025;2 months ago (7 August 2025))
Repository git.libcamera.org/libcamera/libcamera.git/
Written inC and C++
Operating system Linux
Website libcamera.org

libcamera is an open-source software library for image signal processors and embedded cameras on Linux distributions such as Android, ChromeOS and Ubuntu. [3] [4] [5] [6] The developers describe libcamera as a continuation of V4L2.

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Background

Nokia originally wanted to create a plugin-based software project for camera support, but this was cancelled because they stopped development of Linux-based smartphones. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Work to begin on camera API standard". 2022-01-19.
  2. ↑ https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/libcamera.git/tag/?h=v0.5.2.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Larabel, Michael. "libcamera Celebrates Its First Release As Camera Support Library For Linux". Phoronix . Archived from the original on 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
  4. ↑ Cheng, Roger (2020-05-11). "A More Open Raspberry Pi Camera Stack With Libcamera". Hackaday . Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  5. ↑ Pounder, Les (2021-11-14). "How To Use Raspberry Pi Cameras with Bullseye". Tom's Hardware . Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  6. ↑ Brown, Eric (2018-12-04). "Libcamera Aims to Make Embedded Cameras Easier". Linux.com . Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  7. ↑ Corbet, Jonathan. "Access to complex video devices with libcamera". LWN.net . Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2023-02-06.

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