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Libobscura: Cameras Are Difficult [video]


I'm not big-brained enough to use cameras on Linux, so I decided to write my own camera stack (based on a real story). The libobscura ...

Saal GLITCHHardware & Making Playlists:'38c3' videos starting here/ audio I'm not big-brained enough to use cameras on Linux, so I decided to write my own camera stack (based on a real story). The libobscura experiment exists to find out what a point-and-shoot API abstracting Video4Linux should look like. Between pixel formats, depths, media entities, pads and links, sensitivity, denoising, phase detection, shutter lengths, DMAbuf, OpenGL, feedback loops, requests, and statistics, there's enough opportunities to get lost in the detail.

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