Your industrial vision library
Aravis is a glib/gobject based library for video acquisition using Genicam cameras. It currently implements the gigabit ethernet and USB3 protocols used by industrial cameras. It also provides a basic ethernet camera simulator and a simple video viewer.
Aravis is released under the LGPL v2+.
The latest documentation is available here.
The Aravis library depends on libxml2 and glib2, with an optional USB support depending on libusb1, and an optional packet socket support depending on libaudit.
The GStreamer plugin depends on GStreamer1 in addition to the Aravis library dependencies.
The simple viewer depends on GStreamer1, Gtk+3, libnotify and the Aravis library dependencies.
The required versions are specified in the meson.build file in Aravis sources.
It is perfectly possible to only build the library, reducing the dependencies to the bare minimum.
As an open source and free software project, we welcome any contributions to the aravis project: code, bug reports, testing...
However, contributions to both Gigabit Ethernet and USB3 protocol code (files
src/arvuv*.[ch] src/arvgv*.[ch]) must not be based on the corresponding
specification documents published by the AIA, as
this organization forbids the use of their documents for the development of an
open source implementation of the specifications. So, if you want to contribute
to this part of Aravis, don't use the AIA documents and state clearly in the
pull request your work is not based on them.
- Forum: https://aravis-project.discourse.group
- Github repository: https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis
- Releases: https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/releases
- Release notes: https://github.com/AravisProject/aravis/blob/master/NEWS.md
- Aravis 0.8 documentation: https://aravisproject.github.io/docs/aravis-0.8/
- Genicam standard : http://www.genicam.org