camControl – UVC Camera utility upgraded

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Today we released a major upgrade to our camControl (Linux) UVC camera control utility. Building on the open source application already released we are pleased to announce some major new features :

  • re-imaging of the UI, simplified and cleaned up
  • better frame rate support, based on enhancements in the v4l2Camera open source package (support up to 60 fps on cameras with that frame rate)
  • enhanced video capture capability, supporting both :
    • AVI/JPG for most image formats and
    • MP4/H264, for cameras with build in H264 frame generation capability. No encoder is used, raw H264 frames are embedded in a compliant MP4 file.

We are very pleased to announce the addition of web casting support for image formats (JPG, YUV, YUV, BMP etc) as well as H264 video formats :

  • we support multi-part HTTP for streaming image formats at all supported sizes as mutli-part JPG streams.
  • we also support RTSP/RTP for streaming H264 frames from compliant cameras
    • it is a minimal implementation but it works with VLC just fine.
    • multiple streams are supported

You can download debian binaries here, both AMD64 and ARM64 version)

We are working on a Windows version of camControl now, to be released in the next couple months.

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