Vga Camera On Laptop
Arleen Jerdee
Updated to Eos Utility 3 on a Mac 10.9.4 using either a 5d or 6d with a USB cord. I can' find where in EOS Utility I can set it to record the file both to the laptop as well as in camera cards(CF or SD)? There is not the normal check box under Remote Shooting in the preferences .
Second question, I've been using EOS Utility linked with DPP for tethered shooting for many years but really seem lost with these new versions are there any updated online video tutorials that someone can point me towards?
Hi Bob, thank you for that insight that would be awsome! I only have full frame cameras any idea how one goes about making Eos Utility 3 to launch version 2? I sure wish there were some of Canon's super helpful video tutorials on this subject for software-challenged people like me.
In the folder where the installer puts the EOS Utility, there are two subfolders, EU2 and EU3. In EU2, open "EOS Utility 2.exe". Once you're sure it does what you want, you can make a separate shortcut for it.
Well that's great advice. He may well have Lightroom, and choose not to use it for tethered shooting. Lightroom takes an eternity to display the pictures while shooting tethered. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but I find it unuseable. EOS Utility is night and day difference.
Jeff: It's funny you mention this, because I was just trying to set it up the other day, but I was in a hurry and gave up to do the shoot. I haven't toyed with 3.0 much yet. I couldn't find anything online, but I'd like to think that Canon wouldn't remove this feature. Not sure if I'll have time to pull out my camera and try tonight, but I'll poke around and see if I can find anything.
Are there Canon Techs that browse this board - I know it's a simple question but I just can not figure out how to have the file saved on both the laptop as well as the Camera's card simultaneously using Eos Utiltiy 3
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The installation process for version 3 includes an installation of version 2. (This is made especially clear in the R2 version of the version 3 installer.) This is done because version 3 hands you off to version 2 if the camera you're using isn't a FF. So you shouldn't have to reinstall version 2 unless its latest version also has the "Save to card" feature removed.
As far as I can tell each switch is a U channel with a light emitter on one side, and a detector on the other. The part you move on the bezel just breaks the light beam. This creates a electronic on/off hardware switch.
Using an actual physical switch would tend to be a source of an intermittent connection over time. Hence the use of optical technology. Same thought process for the screen open switch being a Hall Effect sensor, which can work through a cover.
Both of these switches are optical switches where a vane will block the light from one side to a phototransistor on the other side. The photo transistor will then cut power to the camera circuit, or switch the mic data output from the mic to a dummy output that generates silence.
With the dark bezel, the tiny size of the openings and switches, and my old guy eyes, I can barely see the switches and a couple of shiny squares, and farther outboard two tiny holes. I can easily be missing something.
I installed pinhole, and it appears that the light goes on only when software actually engages the camera. I think that the light was in the shiny square on the bezel. Also, it appears that the red stripe indicates that the camera or mic is off. I had guessed the opposite, since I took the red as a warning that the device might be engaged.
I am very eager to experience this in person once my laptop arrives early this next week. In the reviews seen online this past summer by various tech YouTubers, I was curious how those switches worked. Glad I found this post.
I did my research a little with some changes, using videolan documentation and Webcam streaming throught VLC with YUY2 compatibility (because I received other decoding errors before), and the closest I got is to create a server on my laptop using (x.x.x.x laptop IP):
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Looks like you connect a USB camera to the laptop. Do you run Linux system on the laptop? If you run Linux, you can install gstreamer and try to launch RTSP server through test-launch. May refer to steps in Jetson Nano FAQ
Q: Is there any example of running RTSP streaming?
I followed the Jetson Nano FAQ and I found this Running gstreamer on ubuntu sending video through RTSP is too slow - Stack Overflow. I followed the instructions there and I got an output screen. Then I checked GStreamer device monitors with the command line testing tool:
Ok, the error disappeared. Connecting from other laptop or phone works well. Now I need to change the codec to make Jetson support it as you can see in the last few lines after trying to connect with my Jetson:
However, if I at some point during the day open the lid on the laptop (Dell XPS 17, also with Windows Hello camera), it stops working on the external screen and only the laptop camera will log me in (which is annoying as I have the laptop on a shelf underneath the table).
I recently got a Logitech BRIO 4K with Windows Hello for my home office but that is even harder to get working with Windows Hello. The camera works fine, and if I chose to "improve my face recognition" Windows happily is using the Logitech BRIO cam and not the Laptop one.
If I boot my laptop at home with the lid closed the Logitech BRIO logs me in the first time, but if I lock my computer, or it goes to sleep over lunch, the Logitech BRIO isn't working anymore (Windows Hello says it can't find the device) but logging in with password and checking the device manager the camera is there and working. Also, opening the lid of the laptop instead of giving the password also logs me in, so clearly Windows has chosen to use the laptop cam and disabled the external one (even though the lid has been closed all the time).
I found a post to set the Registry Key "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\LidNotifyReliable" to 0 (zero) and that seems to help getting the external camera enabled for Hello again, but again, just once... Locking the computer and trying Hello again, and it won't work...
- Hooking up the Philips 499P screen camera or Logitech BRIO 4k (both over USB-C/Thunderbolt) it most often works to use any of those cameras once after being hooked up after closing my lid on the laptop.
No, unfortunately no change in behavior. The external camera on the screens are working maybe once in the morning (when laptop comes up from hibernate or starts up) and if I have the lid open it always pick the laptop camera, but about half of the times the "face" option is not working and I have to use password (no camera comes on).
I bought a Logitech Brio 4K cam for home when my old one died on me, and while it is expensive as *** Windows hello actually works with that camera most of the times (with the lid open, closing the lid and face login is not an option as it doesn't start the camera).
@Todd Hawkins I think we can conclude that Microsoft has not provided a simple configuration setting to choose which camera to use as default for Hello and and the ability to switch to an alternate camera automatically when the default camera is unavailable. The most common situation is for laptop users booting with a closed lid and using external monitors. I have to believe there are millions of users fitting this situation. So if someone from Microsoft is monitoring these chats please run this up the chain until some addresses this issue. In the meantime , for those of us that boot from a closed lid laptop, the Hello login feature is a non-starter.
@Blasty_Utopia I'm having the same issue with my Brio 4k and my work-supplied Surface 5 Laptop running Windows 11 Enterprise 22H2. I can't even get Windows Hello to recognize the Brio, works everywhere else e.g. Teams. I'm a consultant who travels for work a lot so disabling the default camera wouldn't work for me. I need options! Hope Microsoft fixes this ASAP.
Similarly I have a Surface 4 and a Dell WB7022 Windows Hello compatible external camera and on the very latest Windows 11 updates etc. The machine recognises the camera and it works in Teams etc. but I cannot get it to use it as the Windows Hello camera, even if I disable the integrated camera. I am of course using the laptop with an external screen so the lid is down.
When asking these questions including the model can sometimes be useful as some have interesting quirks that the reader may know about. One example related to this is the Dell 3380. The correct sound driver is Realtek and it will download that driver but If it is on the older BIOS then it needed the Microsoft High Definition Audio driver for sound to work. Once we installed that driver or updated the BIOS then it would work. How is this related? Because sometimes it broke the camera as well.
Like Aaron said run Hardware Diagnosis first but be aware that this only checks if the device is alive, not if it is actually functioning properly. But if it fails this test then it is highly likely to be dead.
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