defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - "org.qt-project.qt.camera"

Question

I'm trying to execute QCamera example on Ubuntu, Qt 5.6. "The camera service is missing" message observed.

defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - "org.qt-project.qt.camera"

Answer 1

Check if you have all dependencies installed. They are:

qtmultimedia5-dev

_

libqt5multimedia5-plugins

Ex:

sudo apt-get install libqt5multimedia5-plugins

Answer 2

Checking the example code it seems the example tries to construct the camera object with default camera. Method setCamera is obviously called with camera info which is not valid.

    setCamera(QCameraInfo::defaultCamera());

You can verify that by changing it to

QCameraInfo info = QCameraInfo::defaultCamera();
if (!info.isNull())
{
    setCamera(info);
}
else
{
    qError() << "Default camera not found!";
}

It obviously expects the camera to be found from /dev/video0. You could check if it exists. If your camera is something like video1 or video2, you could rename it to video0 and try again.

You can also add a debug message to the for-loop in Camera class constructor to see device names of available cameras (and modify the code to select other than default camera).

foreach (const QCameraInfo &cameraInfo, QCameraInfo::availableCameras()) {
{
    qDebug() << cameraInfo.deviceName();
}