Name: How V4L2 Transformed To Support Embedded Cameras - Laurent Pinchart, Ideas on Board
Start: 2025-08-26T11:00:00+0200
End: 2025-08-26T11:40:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

Elicium 1

Cameras in today's embedded devices are made of increasingly complex hardware. The V4L2 API has constantly evolved since its birth nearly 25 years ago to support the needs of this ever-changing landscape. What has however not changed much is the impression that V4L2 is the same today as it was 10 years ago, and that it can't adapt to modern devices.

This talk will rectify this misconception by presenting all the recent features of the V4L2 API relevant to cameras in embedded systems. We will cover raw image sensors with complex processing features (such as HDR or NPU), streams multiplexing, powerful ISPs, complex pipelines of serializers and deserializers, multi-context image processing, and more. Examples will focus not just on wishful thinking for the future, but on open solutions that are developed and ship today.

Attendees will see how to support embedded cameras on Linux with mainline kernels and without closed-source stacks, learn which APIs they need for their use cases and how to use them, and hear about ongoing V4L2 developments and where the API is heading for the future.

Speakers

Laurent Pinchart

CEO, Ideas on Board

Laurent Pinchart has been a Linux kernel developer since 2001. He has written media-related Linux drivers for consumer and embedded devices and is one of the V4L core developers. Laurent is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Board, a company specialized in embedded Linux design and development... Read More →

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Elicium 1

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Beginner

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Laurent Pinchart

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