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Mac DSLR webcam plugin for using DSLRs for video conferencing and streaming.

1 year ago

Adds support for Nikon Z50, Z7ii, Z8, Z9
Adds support some new Z series properties
extended movie mode support for Nikon cameras (though exposure preview setting is still not honored by the camera)
Improved white balance tuning views
Fixes menu bar item to show up correctly in dark mode
had to drop support for MacOS 10.12 due to new Xcode. Minimum supported version is now 10.13.

1 year ago

3 years ago

ATTENTION: changes frame grabbing mechanism. If framerate is worse than before, please file an issue!
limited support for controlling settings on UVC (USB Video Class) cameras
new icon
cameras are now collected under a single status item to reduce menubar clutter
fixes some UI typos, improves some property value display names
autofocusing is now attempted even if camera isn't reporting it as available (affects Sony cameras, mostly)
fixes A7-III / A7S-III USB IDs mixup
various error logging improvements

3 years ago

fix crash on dictionary creation when PTP property description could not be parsed correctly (see #38)

3 years ago

improved error handling when receiving malformed jpeg from camera, as potentially happens with the Canon 6D occasionally.

3 years ago

3 years ago

force query properties necessary for Canon EOS LiveView settings, as they may not be automatically sent by camera when opening session
attempt at fixing crash when unplugging Canon EOS camera
improved debug logging during property parsing (especially to trace D5300 crash)

3 years ago

fix crash when latestRelease.info cannot be downloaded, which resulted in an uncaught exception trying to parse the json data.
fixes potential crash bugs as indicated by analyzer warnings.

3 years ago

fixes crash on removal of Canon cameras due to misplaced dispatch_suspend() call.
all cameras now initialized on didOpenSession instead of didBecomeReadyWithCompleteContentCatalogas the latter being called is too inconsistent, and the necessary information seems available at didOpenSession.
improved logging when a property cannot be encoded.

3 years ago

adds functionality to preview live view video from control menu.
improved control menu update when changing incremental settings on Sony cameras.
WB tuning values on Sony cameras now exposed in control menu.
better stream restarting for when launch agent crashes due to unforseen error: streams in most apps will resume video automatically.
show version info in control menu.
show when new version is available to download instead of "About PTP Webcam" menu item.