Camera Applications with Libcamera and PipeWire - Daniel Scally, Ideas on Board Oy

Camera Applications with Libcamera and PipeWire - Daniel Scally, Ideas on Board Oy

libcamera support is growing rapidly. With support from PipeWire, desktop integrations and convergent applications can run on laptops and mobile alike. WebRTC has gained support for using the PipeWire Camera Portal, allowing browsers and conference applications to talk to PipeWire, to manage a complex camera through libcamera. But video is not the only use case for cameras through libcamera. Platform agnostic camera photography applications are being developed and supported including Gnome-Camera, and Harbour-Pinhole which can run on a Desktop PC, small board computers, or supported mobile phones running PostmarketOS or a custom Linux distribution. This talk continues from the previous talk "Application Support with libcamera" given at ELCE-2022, and will explore the progress being made with browser integration for the camera portal and how that will bring conference calling features expected by Linux users with complex cameras back into the 21st century, and further look at how libcamera can be used for photography use cases with mobile devices using standard applications. Demos will be made with the latest implementations.