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List:       gphoto
Subject:    Re: [gphoto] Canon Powershot G1 movies
From:       Philippe Marzouk <pmarzouk () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2001-02-23 18:29:09
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Le jeu, 22 fév 2001 11:30:37, Hubertus Krogmann a écrit :
> Warren Baird wrote:
> > 
> > > I vote that your modification be patched back into CVS.  Movies
> are becoming
> > > a common feature of digicams.  It looks as if, according to Canon,
> the
> > > largest AVI possible is just over 7Mb.
> 
> This will still get a problem if Canon makes the step Sony did with
> its
> new DSC75
> a G1 like cam with "size of memorystick"-videos. The next generation
> may/will
> have that feature, so a maxfilesize of 64mb (or more, I have a
> microdrive 1GB :)
> will be needed, and I think that will get a problem. Perhaps there is
> a
> way 
> doing USB transfers with a small buffer instead of a film/picture -
> size
> malloc for 1 transfer. Just my 2 cent
>  

For movies, the correct way to go may be to write on disk instead of on
memory (I'm not sure that my system would like that much to have a 1GB
malloc with 256 MB of RAM and a swap of the same size :-)

Philippe
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Philippe Marzouk.
e-mail: pmarzouk@wanadoo.fr

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