topic Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)? in Camera Software

When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

livestreamer — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:53:01 GMT

The open source community kindly requests that Canon EOS Utility and Canon EOS Webcam Utility Beta be made available for connecting Canon Cameras to Linux Operating Systems, such as Ubuntu.

By only delivering value to the Apple and Microsoft ecosystems, you are missing out on the swathes of creators in the Open Source world.

Please... I don't want to go back to Microsoft. I'm a Linux convert now.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

livestreamer — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 17:55:47 GMT

Or can we at least make a Linux native webcam driver somehow?

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

Peter — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:50:54 GMT

Have you tried Gphoto2?

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

wq9nsc — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:31:36 GMT

If Canon would port DPP and Adobe would port their Creative Cloud to Linux I would happily leave Win 10 behind forever because Linux does everything else I need and does so without wasting my time.

I use both HP Z 840 and Z 820 workstations and both are configured as dual boot Linux and Win 10 Pro 64 machines. I am doing most of my work now on the Z 840 and although it has plenty of resources it is still amazing to me how much Win 10 gobbles doing all of its inane little tasks.

And I hope that whoever is doing the software development for Canon will evolve to make better use of available resources.

I have the Z 840 equipped with two Xeon 6 core 3.4 Ghz CPUs with 128 GB of memory per CPU, a 1 TB HP Z turbo drive directly on the high speed processor bus for DPP to use in addition to 16 TB of spinning storage and 2 TB of additional solid state storage, and a pair of Nvidia Quadro 4000 workstation graphics cards with 8 GB of memory and 1,664 Cuda cores per card and some of the processing through DPP is painfully slow, especially when using files from my 1DX III and using the clone/stamp function.

But while DPP is spinning its busy wheel, processor loading has never exceeded 20% even though the system is also running other stuff and stays at under 10% over most of the DPP processing cycle. Memory utilization stays in the single digit range. DPP GPU utilization is pretty much impossible to determine because it never jumps above 10% and Windows Client Server Runtime Process is usually responsible for that even when nothing else is running, just another "feature" of the inefficient bloatware also known as Windows 10.

So I also hope that Canon moves stuff over and in the process greatly improves some of the routines but I am not holding my breath waiting.

Rodger

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

livestreamer — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:04:31 GMT

Cool, yeah, I recently discovered `gphoto2` on Linux, which can do for Linux what EOS Webcam Utility can do for Windows / Mac.

```
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -threads 0 -f v4l2 /dev/video2
```

Also, using `gphoto2` to pipe into `ffmpeg` to livestream directly:

```
gphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie --capture-sound | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec h264 -f lavfi -i anullsrc -c:v libx264 -b:v 1000k -c:a aac -x264-params keyint=60 -f flv rtmp://
```

Also, I'm talking to `gphoto` people about capturing sound here: https://github.com/gphoto/gphoto2/issues/354 - feel free to collaborate if you're interested.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

kxra — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 14:14:11 GMT

> Cool, yeah, I recently discovered `gphoto2` on Linux, which can do for Linux what EOS Webcam Utility can do for Windows / Mac.

That's actually not true. The resolution is severely limited this way. We still need proper linux support for Fedora, Debian, etc.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

henrycase — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:58:14 GMT

I've tried using wine but failed miserably until now.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

TM3 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:55:56 GMT

Yeah... looking into that now

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

kxra — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:19:48 GMT

Keep in mind the resolution is arbitrarily limited that way:

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Camera-Software/When-available-Canon-EOS-Utility-for-Linux-Ubuntu/m-p/348745/highlight/true#M5662

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

Alec — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:37:57 GMT

I'm able to see my camera feed on Ubuntu as a USB camera. I have a Canon R8

Just go to menu, settings (wrench) tab, page 4, and select "Choose USB connection app". Then select "video calls/streaming". It doesn't seem to limit resolution aside from cropping the image. This seems like something that could be fixed in a configuration on ubuntu but I'm not sure yet.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

kxra — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:39:49 GMT

@Alec wrote:
It doesn't seem to limit resolution aside from cropping the image.

It doesn't seem to limit the resolution aside from cropping the image…to a smaller resolution?

@Alec wrote:
This seems like something that could be fixed in a configuration on ubuntu

It has been declared a camera-side limitation, meaning Canon must make such a setting accessible, but they want to force people to use their own software even though their own software doesn't work at all for our OS
https://github.com/gphoto/gphoto2/issues/348#event-3536895168

People have been waiting ages for this, so it's not helpful to speculate unless you can confirm it can be and show how.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

Alec — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:04:12 GMT

I see, thanks for the explanation. I would remove my comment, but I think yours is valuable and I don't want to delete this thread so I'll keep it unless someone says otherwise.

Re: When available Canon EOS Utility for Linux (Ubuntu)?

jeanvcastro — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:12:25 GMT

Although there is no official solution, I created a repository on github that can help you with gphoto2.

https://github.com/jeanvcastro/dslr-as-webcam

I found a video that helped me find a temporary solution that works for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Fva7T3l4I

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