Bug 461697

Summary: Implement org.freedesktop.portal.Camera
Product: [Plasma] xdg-desktop-portal-kde Reporter: Nicolas F. <kdebugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: aleixpol, jgrulich, kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nicolas F. 2022-11-11 11:57:56 UTC 
SUMMARY
Please implement the org.freedesktop.portal.Camera portal. This portal allows PipeWire to choose cameras, which is important for the future when we're going to be doing multitasking (what an exciting new age) with cameras on Linux, which isn't possible with v4l2 but is possible with the PipeWire daemon wrapping it.

One particular application that needs this portal is this obs fork: https://github.com/wtay/obs-studio/tree/pipewire-unified-dev
Comment 1 David Redondo 2025-06-23 11:30:22 UTC 
Camera portal is implemented only in the frontend. Backends dont need to implement it.