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

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

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 cheese^AUR through this virtual device:

$ libcamerify cheese

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.

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