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# Libcamera

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Libcamera is a camera support library. It includes support for cameras that have poor or no support by upstream drivers.

## Installation

Install the libcamera package. Install the pipewire-libcamera package to add support for PipeWire.

## Usage

For applications that support it, libcamera can be used as is. Some applications need to use V4L2, so `libcamerify` from libcamera-tools can use LD_PRELOAD to add a virtual V4L2 device that points to libcamera, for example running cheeseAUR through this virtual device:

    $ libcamerify cheese

## Debugging

Running `qcam` as provided by libcamera-tools can show whether the camera in use is working even if other software does not support the libcamera APIs.

## See also

- Libcamera website
- IPU6 camera support/guide in Fedora, including ways to debug libcamera
- Enabling/debugging libcamera in Firefox

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- Digital imaging
- Input devices

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