Comprehensive Guide to USB Camera Development and Debugging Tools

From the title, it indeed seems quite specific.

From the system level, the buses recognized as cameras by the operating system include not only USB but also other buses, such as MIPI cameras, and many software-virtualized cameras. However, during the camera development process, there are always some technical specifications involved, such as the parsing of video formats, MJPG, H264, H265, YUV formats, and upper-layer camera playback applications like Potplayer, etc. The technical implementations are generally DirectShow and MediaFoundation. Of course, there is also a specific extension unit communication for the USB camera specification – UVC. The USB Chinese website is dedicated to sharing USB technology, which will also involve UVC specifications and the development technology of USB cameras. To facilitate related practitioners in speeding up development and debugging, we have also collected and developed some debugging and auxiliary tools for UVC camera debugging.

  • XUDebuger UVC extension unit debugging tool – Linjiang Xian version XUDebuger_v1.1 automatically enumerates the GUIDs of UVC extension units and communicates with them. Click here to download XUDebuger_v1.1. Of course, if you cannot enumerate the GUID of the UVC extension unit, you can also use this manual version for debugging. Click here to download manual version.

  • UVC Extension Unit Debugging Tool – V1.9 USB Chinese website version of the UVC extension unit debugging tool. Click here to download UVCXU-V1.9.

  • UVC Stream Command Parser V1.1 A data analysis tool for the 26/34/48 bytes of data when the UVC camera is opened. Click here to download UVCStreamComandParser. Online analysis tool: Online Tool

  • H264/H265 Data File Analysis H264/H265 data format analysis. Click here to download H264-H265BSAnalyzer.

  • Elecard StreamEye Tools a video data format analysis and player tool. Click here to download Elecard StreamEye Tools.

  • Elecard StreamEye Tools a single-frame playback and viewing H264 player. Click here to download Elecard StreamEye Tools.

  • Raw Viewer YUV image viewer. YUV video format player. Click here to download.

  • YUV Player YUV video format player. Click here to download YUV Player.

  • playcap a tool modified based on Microsoft’s playcap, the original software opens the first camera, and after modification, it can be selected through a pop-up window. Mainly used for quick camera debugging. Click here to download playcap.

  • AMCAP a bit more advanced than playcap, supports settings for processing units, etc. Click here to download AMCAP.

  • PotPlayer camera opening test tool, supports a wide variety of formats. 64-bit version: 64-bit 32-bit version: 32-bit

  • D8Ecap a simple camera player that can record. Click here to download D8Ecap.

  • Web-based online camera testing tool Online Camera Test Tool

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