How to use Raspberry Pi Cameras with the New 'Bullseye' OS Update - LibCamera

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This guide will get you taking pictures and videos ASAP with the New 'Bullseye' Raspberry Pi OS release. This explains all the new camera terminal commands and settings so you can get right back to snapping and filming with this new Debian Version 11 release.

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If you try to use the old commands you will be met with the error code | bash: raspistill: command not found | or | bash: raspivid: command not found |.

With the newest update to Raspberry Pi OS (Debian Version 11 - nicknamed ‘Bullseye’) there have been some changes to the terminal commands which control attached cameras. This is one of the biggest changes with the new update. This has occurred as the old, less open-source camera package has been replaced with the new more open-source Libcamera package. As a user, this means the | raspistill | and | raspicam | camera commands have been replaced with different commands under the new Libcamera suite. All camera control commands have basically had their first prefix replaced with | libcamera-still | and | libcamera-vid | with some changes to additional run on settings as well. So, this guide is going to solely focus on these new commands available to you with this new Release. I will demonstrate how to take pictures and videos, change the parameters, create a timelaspe and how to encode/capture raw data/capture colour spaces using this new package. The camera commands explained on this page will work with any Camera Module for any Raspberry Pi handheld computer with the newest Raspberry Pi OS release [Update - There has been some issues with the new Pi Zero 2 and this new OS, if you run into any issues revert to previous 'Buster' OS version, download link above]. This new camera package has also provided a whole bunch of streaming capabilities allowing you to simply stream video over your internet connection via VLC. Furthermore, this more open source package will provide improvements to multiprocessing to better handle large arrays in shared memory which should speed up processing for computer vision applications.

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0:00 Intro
0:12 LibCamera Package What and Why
0:57 The Set Up
1:15 Camera Test Command
1:35 Permanent Preview Command
2:18 Photo Command
3:13 Methods to See All Options
3:45 Photo with Custom Settings
4:42 Encoding, Colour Space and Raw (More Examples in Article)
5:01 Time-laspe Command
6:07 Video Command
7:00 Video with Custom Settings
7:10 Where to Now
7:30 Outro