Re: Cannot capture video with Nikkon D5000/D5100 on Rasbian system

Hi,

Good to hear its resolved.

I think moviecapture has too much data for the camera RAM, 
so it needs to go via the SD Card.

I dont know about the 5000, it might not have had it yet.

Ciao, Marcus

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 03:14:15PM +0200, The Passenger wrote:
> Greetings again,
> 
> I have discovered that when I insert an SD card in the Nikkon D5100 movie
> capture works fine with the command I originally posted with *one change*:
> *--wait-event-and-download* must be set to at least 4s. Anything below that
> appears to cause the file download to fail. I do not get any error messages
> whatsoever so I do not understand why that is happening but I'm guessing
> it's because anything below 4s is less than the time required to actually
> complete the file transfer. So this issue appears to have been resolved
> although i would like to know whether it is possible to capture video
> without an SD card and also whether there is any way to capture video on a
> Nikkon D5000 - the "moviesound" setting i mentioned earlier appears to be
> simply a setting to determine whether the movie will have sound or not
> although it is useless if the actual movie capture setting is not visible.
> 
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 13:00, The Passenger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Correction on previous post: The moviesound setting is on the D5000, it
> > has nothing to do with the gphoto2 version. Apologies for the confusion.
> > The different behaviour still exists with the D5000 though, the shutter
> > does not open at all whereas in the D5100 it does (with the 'movie' setting)
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:04 The Passenger <[email protected] wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Going further, I have also tested this scenario with gphoto2 v 2.5.17.
> >> The problem is, now there is no "movie" property and it appears to have
> >> been replaced with "moviesound". When I repeat the same steps I do not get
> >> any errors but the shutter of the camera does not open at all.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:19 MrGiskard <[email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >>> Greetings to all
> >>>
> >>> I have run into problems trying to capture video on a Nikkon D5000/D5100
> >>> with gphoto on a Rasberry Pi and I was wondering if any fellow user can
> >>> offer some help on the matter. Keep in mind that I can capture images
> >>> without any problem on both cameras (and other Nikkon models as well e.g
> >>> D70)
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to shoot video using the following gphoto2 command which i
> >>> have
> >>> seen in several tutorials/forums on the internet:
> >>>
> >>> /gphoto2 --debug --port=usb:001,017 --set-config movie=1 --wait-event=5s
> >>> --set-config movie=0 --wait-event-and-download=2s --filename=test.avi
> >>> --force-overwrite/
> >>>
> >>> and the following events happen:
> >>>
> >>> 1. I get the message "Invalid Status" on screen
> >>> 2. I can hear the shutter of the camera open
> >>> 3. The following lines appear on-screen
> >>>
> >>> /Waiting for 5 seconds for events from camera. Press Ctrl-C to abort.
> >>> UNKNOWN PTP Property d1a2 changed
> >>> UNKNOWN PTP Property d1b1 changed
> >>> UNKNOWN PTP Property d1b1 changed
> >>> UNKNOWN PTP Property d1b1 changed
> >>> Waiting for 2 seconds for events from camera. Press Ctrl-C to abort./
> >>>
> >>> 4. I can hear the shutter of the camera close.
> >>>
> >>> The time between the shutter openings appears to correspond to the time
> >>> setting in my command but of course no movie file is created.
> >>>
> >>> Following some more tests I have found the following:
> >>>
> >>> 1. The "Invalid status" error appears even if my command is only /gphoto2
> >>> --debug --port=usb:001,017 --set-config movie=1/
> >>>
> >>> 2. Following a list-all-config command I have found the "movie" setting
> >>> on
> >>> the camera but I can see that the current setting is "2" even though it
> >>> has
> >>> type "TOGGLE" so I expected a 1 or a 0 - I do not understand what that
> >>> means. In any case if I try to use a different value than 1 or 0 in the
> >>> *--set-config movie * I get a value error so it appears that only these
> >>> are
> >>> the accepted values
> >>>
> >>> I have also produced a full debug trace which is too long to post here
> >>> but I
> >>> am pasting the part where the error appears:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> /0.458704 ptp_usb_getresp             (2): Reading PTP_OC 0x920a
> >>> (PTP_OC_NIKON_StartMovieRecInCard) response...
> >>> 0.458721 gp_port_read                (3): Reading 1024 = 0x400 bytes from
> >>> port...
> >>> 0.458835 gp_port_read                (3): Read    12 = 0xc out of 1024
> >>> bytes
> >>> from port: (hexdump of 12 bytes)
> >>> 0000  0c 00 00 00 03 00 04 a0-0d 00 00 00              ............
> >>>
> >>> 0.458858 ptp_usb_getresp [usb.c:438] (0): PTP_OC 0x920a receiving resp
> >>> failed: Invalid Status (0xa004)
> >>> 0.458880 _put_Nikon_Movie [config.c:5872](0): 'ptp_nikon_startmovie
> >>> (params)' failed: 'Invalid Status' (0xa004)
> >>> 0.458925 gp_context_error            (0): Invalid Status
> >>>
> >>> *** Error ***
> >>> Invalid Status
> >>> 0.459136 camera_wait_for_event       (2): waiting for events timeout
> >>> 1000 ms
> >>> 0.459168 ptp_usb_sendreq             (2): Sending PTP_OC 0x90c7
> >>> (PTP_OC_NIKON_CheckEvent) request...
> >>> 0.459185 gp_port_write               (3): Writing 12 = 0xc bytes to
> >>> port...
> >>> 0.459256 gp_port_write               (3): Wrote   12 = 0xc bytes to port:
> >>> (hexdump of 12 bytes)
> >>> 0000  0c 00 00 00 01 00 c7 90-0e 00 00 00              ............    /
> >>>
> >>> Lastly I post my gphoto2 version details:
> >>>
> >>> /0.000892 main                        (2): gphoto2 2.5.10
> >>> 0.000973 main                        (2): gphoto2 has been compiled with
> >>> the
> >>> following options:
> >>> 0.001009 main                        (2):  + gcc (C compiler used)
> >>> 0.001045 main                        (2):  + popt (mandatory, for
> >>> handling
> >>> command-line parameters)
> >>> 0.001077 main                        (2):  + exif (for displaying EXIF
> >>> information)
> >>> 0.001112 main                        (2):  + no cdk (for accessing
> >>> configuration options)
> >>> 0.001142 main                        (2):  + no aa (for displaying live
> >>> previews)
> >>> 0.001174 main                        (2):  + jpeg (for displaying live
> >>> previews in JPEG format)
> >>> 0.001204 main                        (2):  + no readline (for easy
> >>> navigation in the shell)/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any assistance on the problem would be greatly appreciated
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
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