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MAVLink Camera Manager

  • Software
  • Drones and boats
  • Tool

A cross-platform camera server built on GStreamer and Rust-MAVLink that creates and manages video streams from local and remote cameras for MAVLink ground stations.

Made by mavlink.

Source on GitHub: github.com/mavlink/mavlink-camera-manager (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e6d7fd7 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit e6d7fd7 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Creates and manages streams from USB cameras via video4linux and from remote IP cameras.
  • Supports H264, MJPG and Raw (YUYV) encodings.
  • Offers a REST API with a Swagger UI for controlling streams and integrating with other software.
  • Lets video4linux camera controls such as brightness and saturation be configured, and exposes them over MAVLink.
  • Redirects third-party streams and advertises them via the MAVLink protocol, handling multiple cameras.
  • Provides a WebRTC-ready output from any H264 source, plus SDP files for players such as VLC.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e6d7fd7.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
8 Sept 2026 on master
Latest release
0.2.4 (21 May 2020)

Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.