Re: [Gphoto-user] Capture video from Canon PowerShot P5 IS

[Matt H. <mh...@me...>]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:48 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:25:13PM -0400, Matt Hirsch wrote:
> > I have a Canon PowerShot P5 IS. I'd like to capture video over the USB
> > cable. Is this possible? 
> 
> The --capture-movie --capture-sound functions are not implemented for Canons
> (nor any other Camera I think).
> Newer libgphoto2 will report "unsupported", in 2.4.0 they just alway took
> an image.
> 
> So far we have not found if we can control the movie abilities
> remotely.
> 

I saw someone using this PSRemote software to capture video from the S5
IS: http://www.breezesys.com/PSRemote/index.htm I don't have windows
installed, but maybe this would be a good place to start?

> What would be possible would be to take a stream of preview (viewfinder)
> images and turn them into a videostream. Without sound though and at one
> fixed size.
> 

I'll try that. Thanks.

> > Does it matter that this camera has a separate shutter button and video
> > record button? This is different than other canon cameras I've seen. In
> > movie mode the shutter button still takes a picture, and in picture mode
> > the video record button still records a movie.
> 
> Interesting. Does it matter how long you press it there?

It doesn't seem to matter how long the button is pressed. You can see
the two buttons in the photo:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=144&modelid=15207

As far as I can tell the only purpose of the video mode is to change the
video capture settings.

Thanks again for your help.
Matt