powershot

Canon Powershot digicam capture driver. More...

Canon Powershot digicam capture driver.

The powershot driver captures images from various Canon Powershot digicams. Based on Capture tool http://capture.sourceforge.net (GNU GPL v2).

Compile-time dependencies

• libusb
• libptp2
• libexif

Provides

• camera

Requires

• none

Configuration requests

• none

Configuration file options

• repeat (integer)
  • Default: 0
  • If set to 1, keep on publishing any previously captured frame
• sleep_nsec (integer)
  • Default: 10000000 (=10ms which gives max 100 fps)
  • timespec value for nanosleep() (used when repeat = 1)
• init_commands (string tuple)
  • Default: NONE
  • See list of commands accepted by capture tool by Petr Danecek http://capture.sourceforge.net
• live_view (integer)
  • Default: 0
  • If set to 1, live view will be published (better framerate, worse quality)

Properties

• live_width (integer)
  • Default: 320
  • Image width when live_view is set to 1 (set this when 320 does not fit live image width)
• live_height (integer)
  • Default: 240
  • Image height when live_view is set to 1 (set this when 240 does not fit live image height)

Example

driver
(
  name "powershot"
  provides ["camera:0"]
  init_commands ["flash on" "size small"]
)

Author

Paul Osmialowski, Petr Danecek