Introduction
CIViQ6 is a Python package for camera integration of VimbaPython and Qt6.
CIViQ6 vs QtMultimedia
CIViQ6 provides classes that are analogous to QtMultimedia classes.
CIViQ6 |
QtMultimedia |
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QMediaDevices |
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QCameraDevice |
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QCamera |
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QMediaCaptureSession |
These classes can be used similarly to their Qt counterparts and are compatible to other classes such as QVideoSink or QVideoWidget.
There are a few differences, however…
Running Vimba
VimbaRunner is a class unique to CIViQ6 without any Qt counterpart.
Before starting any camera, VimbaRunner must be run in separate thread to initiate the Vimba instance.
See Camera streaming page for example.
Capturing and recording
VimbaCaptureSession is NOT compatible to QtMultimedia’s QImageCapture and QMediaRecorder classes.
You must instead define your own classes to capture the image and to record the video.
Capturing and recording page provides example for defining your own capturer and recorder.
Camera properties
VimbaCamera does not support various properties which are defined in QCamera, and is not compatible to QCameraFormat.
Instead, it uses the VimbaPython’s camera feature design and provides access to it.
See the API reference and Setting camera features page to see how the camera features can be controlled.
Supported Qt bindings
CIViQ6 is compatible with the following Qt binding packages:
When CIViQ6 is imported, available package is searched and selected in the order mentioned above.
To force a particular API, set environment variable CIVIQ_QT_API with package name. Letter case does not matter.