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CameraStack

CameraStack
Server.

The software half of a network camera. Point it at your hardware and it handles the whole chain: sensor capture, hardware encode, RTSP streaming, ONVIF services, TLS security and device management.

In active development Evaluation builds available

How it works

One core.
Focused plugins.

Stop rebuilding the same software stack for every chipset. The differences live in focused vendor plugins; the product you maintain stays one codebase.

CameraStack Server architecture: ONVIF, WS-Discovery and RTSP interfaces into a portable core, which drives vendor adapters through a shared GStreamer porting layer or custom SDK integration, down to each vendor's sensor and SoC.

Start a product

You are building a new camera, encoder or NVR. Start from a working device instead of an empty repo: the whole video path from sensor capture and hardware encode to live RTSP streaming, plus ONVIF and device management, ported to your silicon.

Complete product stack

Complete a product

Your product already works and has its own video pipeline; it just needs a standards-compliant ONVIF interface. The CameraStack protocol layer bolts onto what you already have.

Drop-in interface

Built to travel

Highly
portable.

The hardware-specific code is deliberately small. A portable core does the standards work, and everything below it is a thin adapter, so a new platform is an integration, not a rewrite.

Core

Portable Go core

ONVIF, WS-Discovery, RTSP streaming, TLS security and device management live in one portable Go core. The same standards logic runs on every platform, carrying no vendor assumptions.

GStreamer

Shared GStreamer core

On any platform with GStreamer, capture and hardware encode run through a shared GStreamer core. A new board is described rather than rebuilt, so bring-up is a thin adapter over elements you already have.

SDK

Plug in without GStreamer

Where there is no GStreamer, a well-defined producer interface lets a native vendor SDK feed encoded video into the core. The producer is language-agnostic and typically written in C, straight against the vendor SDK.

The core

What's in
the core.

Everything an IP camera needs in one stack: streaming, video pipeline, ONVIF, security, analytics and camera control.

ONVIF services
Device, DeviceIO, Media, Media2 (Profile S and Profile T), PTZ, Events, Imaging, Analytics and Advanced Security
Discovery
WS-Discovery, so ONVIF clients find the camera on the network
Edge AI analytics
Object detection on the camera's own AI accelerator, published as tracked ONVIF scene metadata, with live model selection
RTSP streaming
Full range of ONVIF transports: TCP, UDP, HTTP tunnelling, WebSocket and multicast
Video
Multi-profile H.264 and H.265, with JPEG snapshots and rotation
TLS
HTTPS management and snapshots, RTSP over HTTPS, secure WebSocket, rtsps:// streaming and SRTP over UDP and TCP, with camera-held certificates managed through the ONVIF TLS Configuration Add-on
Media Signing
H.264 and H.265 video signed inside the encoded stream with a unique identity for each camera, enabled through ONVIF Media2
PTZ
Pan and tilt moves, presets and home position
Audio
A second RTP track, configured through ONVIF Media1 and Media2
Motion detection
ONVIF MotionRegionDetector polygon rules on a compact activity grid
Imaging
Brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure and more, wired to the ISP
OSD
Text overlays
Live encoder control
Frame rate, bitrate and GOP changes mid-stream, on-demand keyframes
Demand-driven encoding
Each encoder runs and consumes resources only while clients consume its profile
Metadata and events
Metadata streaming and events, including the ONVIF ImageTooDark tampering event

Reference ports

Platform-
independent.

The core is designed for high portability across disparate platform types; these reference ports are available, and a proven starting point for the next one.

NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI platform Available reference platform Raspberry Pi Embedded Linux Available reference platform NXP i.MX 8M Mini Applications processor Available reference platform Axera AX630C Camera SoC Available reference platform Sophgo SG2002 Camera SoC Available reference platform Rockchip RV1106 Camera SoC Available reference platform Rockchip RV1126B 4K camera SoC Available reference platform Rockchip RK3588 (HDMI) HDMI encoder platform Available reference platform Allwinner A733 Edge AI camera platform Available reference platform HiSilicon Hi3519V101 Legacy 4K camera SoC Available reference platform
Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 Arduino UNO Q Port in progress
Ingenic T31X Camera SoC Port in progress
Your silicon Any camera SoC Tell us what you are building

Evaluate it

Put it on
your bench.

CameraStack Server is in active development ahead of its commercial launch. Evaluation builds are available to teams building real products, and if your chipset is not ported yet, the port can usually be folded into an integration project.

Request an evaluation build