Panasonic Camera Reverse (Use your Panasonic Camera on Linux)

Applications Created by reverse enginnering the Panasonics Cameras

This Repository Contains some Applications created by Reverse enginnering Panasonic Cameras

The Utilities

For a Live Feed of your Camera use PanLivePlayerControl. For an v4l2 feed of your Camera use Panasonic_to_v4l2`.

Tested Platforms

Currently only Linux is supported. Macos was tried but SDL2(NSWindow) doesn't allow to create a window inside of an Thread it might be fixed in a later version.

PanLivePlayerControl

This is a Application Written in C/C++ which gives you a Live feed of your Camera using sdl2.

Dependencies

PanLivePlayerControl uses : g++ SDL2 SDL2_image libcurl and libturbojpeg Ubuntu/Debain : sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libcurl-dev libjpeg-turbo libao-dev

Build

Just run the build.sh script in the directory to build it.

Usage

Run ./PanLivePlayerControl <The IP of your Camera>

Panasonic_to_v4l2

This captures the Live feed of your Camera to an v4l2 device.

Build

Just run the build.sh script in the directory to build it.

Dependencies

PanasonicToV4l2 uses : libv4l2cpp libcurl v4l2loopback(Fake v4l2 device) and g++ Ubuntu/Debain : sudo apt install libcurl-dev v4l2loopback-dkms

Usage

1. Create a Fake v4l2 device (sudo modprobe v4l2loopback video_nr=<The Number of the v4l2 device>)
2. ./PanasonicToV4l2 <The IP of the Cmaera> /dev/video<The same number you selected before>

Tested Cameras

Currently only the HC-V380 was tested but if this works with other cameras please create an issue.

Todos

The Code isn't optimized yet and still has tons of flaws see it as a proof of concept. If you fixed an issue or cleared up the code please create an PR.