Re: Canon PowerShot SX740 HS: HOWTO capture movie

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 05:23:38PM +0200, Christof Bodner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I like this project and checked, if the camera is supported before I ordered
> my new camera. It works as I expected, pictures can be transfered and
> captured.
> 
> But if I try to record a movie, an error is stated:
> 
> $ env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=my-logfile.txt
> --capture-movie=10
> Capturing 10 preview frames as movie to 'movie.mjpg'.
> ERROR: Movie capture error... Exiting.
> Movie capture finished (0 frames)
> 
> What I am doing wrong? I did a checkout of the GIT today and compiled
> libgphoto2 and gphoto2 in the latest version. I attached the logfile.


> 0.000243 main                        (2): libgphoto2_port 0.12.0
> 0.000256 main                        (2): libgphoto2_port has been compiled with the following options:
> 0.000319 main                        (2):  + no USB (for USB cameras)

You need to build libgphoto2 with libusb1 support. Install the libusb 1 development library and headers
before running configure for libgphoto2.

libusb-1_0-devel on openSUSE, libusb-1.0-0-dev on Ubuntu or similary named on others.

Ciao, Marcus