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On Hero < 12, livestream only supports Wide FOV
Component What is the bug in?
- Demos (python SDK) Look at: https://github.com/gopro/OpenGoPro/blob/5baddd029d87abbfd6e0a0b578e815316e121e91/demos/python/sdk_wireless_camera_control/open_gopro/demos/gui/livestream.py#L109
Describe the bug In livestream, Setting FOV to linear or superview does not have any effect. It stays on Wide.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Run
livestream.pywith any described values available atlive_streaming.proto. - You will get always a wide-angle stream!
Expected behavior I expect to change the lens type to something other than wide.
Screenshots No.
Hardware
- Camera: Hero9
- Desktop: Linux
- Raspberry Pi 4
Additional context This is a request: Add 4k streaming resolution to the window size option if possible.
I thought I was doing something wrong, also bashing my head against this.
In the LiveStreamStatusUpdate responses that comes back the liveStreamLensSupported is always set to false, and the liveStreamLensSupportedArray set to empty.
This is using Swift on iOS. Seems the camera is just ignoring the lens settings.
Yes, I saw also the same. The relevant FOV setting is set to false in response to the query of the available/adjustable settings in the camera. Perhaps we should wait for new firmware and see if GoPro allows it or not. But indeed it should be pretty easy for them to have a setting for FOV in live stream mode. It is very strange that they don't allow users to set the FOV settings.
Hello. I just tested this on Hero 12 by running the livestream demo once with lens set to EnumLens.LENS_LINEAR and once with lens set to EnumLens.LENS_SUPERVIEW and I see, as expected, an obvious difference in the FOV.
So I think it is clear that the FOV argument works when starting livestream via the set_livestream_mode command.
Was that the bug described here? Or are you trying to change the FOV when a livestream has already been started. If the latter, this is not currently supported.
Hello. I just tested this on Hero 12 by running the livestream demo once with lens set to
EnumLens.LENS_LINEARand once with lens set toEnumLens.LENS_SUPERVIEWand I see, as expected, an obvious difference in the FOV.So I think it is clear that the FOV argument works when starting livestream via the set_livestream_mode command.
Was that the bug described here? Or are you trying to change the FOV when a livestream has already been started. If the latter, this is not currently supported.
As we stated in the previous 2 posts, the cameras we used (hero9 and hero10 at least) don't allow us to change this:
In the LiveStreamStatusUpdate responses that comes back the liveStreamLensSupported is always set to false, and the liveStreamLensSupportedArray set to empty.
Yes, we set first the mode and then we start the stream. We don't change it once the stream is started. Maybe it is more related to firmware than your SDK?
Ok I do see the described behavior on Hero 9. I'll try to look into some more but this is almost certainly a case of a bug that was fixed for newer releases. Unfortunately it is very unlikely that there will ever be more Hero 9 / 10 releases to get this fix in. If so, I will add this to the known issues
It turns out that the correct behavior was already discovered above.
Older cameras simply do not support configurable FOV for livestreaming. So the correct behavior is to dynamically check the supported lens array in Livestream Status to know which FOV's are supported.
There are no plans to backport this functionality to older cameras. However, I will leave this open as a documentation bug until the protobuf documentation is updated.
The documentation has been udpated to note that the
The set of supported lenses is only available from the live_stream_lens_supported_array in NotifyLiveStreamStatus)