[needs-packaging] rpicam-apps

[Dave Jones]

URL: https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcamera-apps
License: BSD-2-Clause
Notes:

The current range of demo applications shipped with libcamera is pretty minimal, offering the ability to preview a camera's output and snap a still image. The libcamera-apps package, shipped with RaspiOS, offers a more complete set of demo applications with the ability to snap still images in response to key-presses, signals, or on a timer, record video (also in response to various inputs), and capture raw images.

While some facilities in these demos are specific to the Raspberry Pi camera modules, most facilities should also work with third party camera modules, and on architectures other than the Pi.

The package builds successfully against libcamera 0.0.4 (currently in the archive) and libcamera 0.0.5 (current in Debian experimental) and should be reasonably simple to maintain going forward.

Test builds (against libcamera 0.0.5) are available in ppa:waveform/libcamera:

https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/libcamera

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Test build with support for Pi 5:
https://launchpad.net/~juergh/+archive/ubuntu/pi5

[Dave Jones (waveform)]

Upstream has now renamed libcamera-apps to rpicam-apps; the current version requires a later version of libcamera than that currently in either Debian or Ubuntu repos, but it appears the patches applied to libcamera in @juergh's PPA are sufficient for it. I'll update my PPA with the current version of rpicam-apps and then seek sponsorship for this.

[Dave Jones (waveform)]

Nope, the patches in @juergh's PPA aren't sufficient for it (needs the orientation.h header, which is new, but already in upstream's repos). I'll see what I can do about an updated version of that too...