Re: convert Canon EOS M into a webcam

Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
 
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 01:05:50PM +0100, Marcos Angelini wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am sorry I am new in gphoto. I have a Canon EOS M50 and I am Arch Linux
> user. I was able to download files from the camera and to connect it with
> Entangle to capture pictures remotely.
> I would like to know if there is any way to use the camera as a webcam with
> OBS Studio.
> There is a plugin developed for it obs-gphoto
> https://github.com/Atterratio/obs-gphoto but it is outdated. Any other
> suggestion?

Entangle can show a preview already for the M50, right?

The obs-gphoto plugin likely still works even with current libgphoto2, 
i had a quick look at the code.

This likely should work for the M50.

Ciao, Marcus
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