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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by MartijnBraam on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:03AM (#33245974)
libcamera: from the people who made v4l2 a mess
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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by robert_foss on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:21AM (#33246127)
That's both uncharitable & incorrect
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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by fdfaz on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:23AM (#33246139)
from the name I guess v4l2 is the second version of something? So third time's the charm?
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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by TheCycoONE on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:40AM (#33246960)
Video 4 Linux, and yes it's the second version. v4l was added to the kernel in the late 90s, and v4l2 replaced it in the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video4Linux

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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by ognarb on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:09AM (#33246556)
Interesting statement from the author of megapixels https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels
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Re:Libcamera v0.0.1 by johndough on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:48AM (#33249216)
The people who downvote this comment probably have not used libcamera. All the smart pointer stuff makes it needlessly difficult. Ironically, the first example on how to use libcamera that I could find leaks memory.
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