[{"content":"Linux is and has been my daily driver for a long time now, but I\u0026rsquo;ve only just started using a fancy mirror-less camera for photos and videos. I snagged a pretty good deal on a Canon M50 off eBay and I\u0026rsquo;ve really enjoyed playing around with it, but I\u0026rsquo;d like to use it for Discord to chat with friends or OBS to make videos for my Linux/Gnub YouTube channel. However, Linux doesn\u0026rsquo;t get the same software or driver efforts as Windows or MacOS does from camera manufactures, so there\u0026rsquo;s no plug and play support for us Linux users. I have a capture device coming in soon to solve this issue, but a couple of weeks back I was getting ready to hop on a call with some friends and wanted to see if I could use the M50. After some googling and digging through reddit, I found a few posts that said it could be done by using gphoto2 and ffmpeg along with v4l2loopback. There is a great video tutorial from Novaspirit Tech, AKA Don Hui, that laid out the steps needed to get setup. I managed to get it working and had a great conversation with my friends! Thanks to this little trick and the hard work of the developers I was able to get a great video feed from my camera!\nNow there are some limitations that I\u0026rsquo;ll explain later, but for now lets go through the install, setup and usage so I won\u0026rsquo;t forget for next time I want to capture video this way.\ninstallation and usage # To install the two libraries run:\nsudo dnf install gphoto2 v4l2loopback Then load the kernel module:\nsudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1 max_buffer=2 Now, plug in the USB cable from the camera into the computer, then turn on the camera. To check if the machine is able to detect the camera, run:\ngphoto2 --auto-detect To find out what video source to point ffmpeg to I can run:\nv4l2-ctl --list-devices I can now use ffmpeg to redirect it to the virtual camera device.\ngphoto2 --stdout --capture-movie | ffmpeg -i - -vcodec rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -f v4l2 /dev/video1 Voala!\nNow I can use my camera to capture video using OBS or as a video source for Zoom and Discord instead of my dinky webcam. This should be a much better picture quality, even if it is at a lower resolution. To see if your camera is compatible be sure to check the gphoto compatibility list in the link below.\nReferences: gPhoto2 http://www.gphoto.org/ Novaspirit Tech https://youtu.be/TsuY4o2zLVQ (Rest in peace)\n","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tutorials/how-to-use-my-canon-m50-in-linux/","section":"Tutorials","summary":"","title":"How to use a my Canon M50 in Linux","type":"tutorials"},{"content":"","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/linux/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Linux","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Linux / Gnub","summary":"","title":"Linux / Gnub","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tutorials/","section":"Tutorials","summary":"","title":"Tutorials","type":"tutorials"},{"content":"","date":"6 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/video/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Video","type":"tags"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"}]