diff --git a/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp b/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
index dabccac94f..5c0b73f2b3 100644
--- a/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
+++ b/src/citra_qt/camera/qt_multimedia_camera.cpp
@@ -172,9 +172,12 @@ void QtMultimediaCameraHandler::CreateCamera(const std::string& camera_name) {
     }
     settings.setMinimumFrameRate(30);
     settings.setMaximumFrameRate(30);
-#ifdef __linux__
-    settings.setPixelFormat(QVideoFrame::PixelFormat::Format_RGB565);
-#endif
+    if (camera->supportedViewfinderPixelFormats().isEmpty()) {
+        // The gstreamer plugin (used on linux systems) returns an empty list on querying supported
+        // viewfinder pixel formats, and will not work without expliciting setting it to some value,
+        // so we are defaulting to RGB565 here which should be fairly widely supported.
+        settings.setPixelFormat(QVideoFrame::PixelFormat::Format_RGB565);
+    }
     camera->setViewfinder(&camera_surface);
     camera->load();
 }