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		looofooo0 on Jan 17, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as ... Canon G5 X mark 2 does not seem to be supported by gphoto: http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

ChrisMLane on Jan 17, 2025 [–]

Worth a try compiling a custom version after adding to https://github.com/knro/libgphoto2/blob/master/camlibs/canon... Hopefully it's as easy as that.

I'm able to pipe gphoto2 frames to a pipewire sink or v4l2 device and it works great for making my Canon EOS 250D into a webcam.

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