07-26-2020 01:53 PM
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07-27-2020 04:31 PM
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
08-05-2020 08:04 AM
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.
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