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Technically R has all the hardware to do 1080p60 on a fast card, and with code I have on branch it can record full sensor width 1080p60 uncompressed 14 bit RAW with I believe line binning (that was checked by Walter).

But we don't understand how to control EDMAC on Digic 8 (it has different hardware than previous generations) so it was a sheer luck we found a working combination to do it at all. There was no attempts to do 1:1 zoom modes recording and with our current knowledge 12/10 bit and lossless can't be done. I mean in terms of "we don't know how to configure hardware to achieve this".

Digic 8 has more problems, it requires much rework in our codebase (Canon changed data structures for basic things like ISO or Aperture values in a way those are incompatible with our core data structures), and - as Names pointed out - for a good 3 years or more we are trying to catch major instability problem on those platforms.

I would like to explore possibility of such literally "unstable dev super-pre-alpha" Digic 8 builds in foreseeable future, but they will be fundamentally broken in many areas and targeted towards chasing the root cause of mentioned unstability. But that for sure won't happen before, or close to first "reboot" releases.

I don't want to cause any trouble to the people handling the group, I just find strange that new post are not being approved for quite some time and I know no other way to reach the admins

Nah, that was not the intention of my post. I know there are a lot of similar groups, just found it interesting people from ML mod/dev community have admin capabilities there and we missed that somehow

In fact some time ago I wanted to join that particular group from ML fanpage account but unfortunately it is locked from being joined by pages.

We had some internal discussions on how to make a clear distinction between "official builds", nightly/development "official builds" and "community builds" for the upcoming reboot - since for now everybody just uses "Magic Lantern" name and logo which is not always the best approach.
I was exploring use of Magic Lantern name / branding over the internet groups, etc and IIRC that was in fact the biggest group I found back then.

You might be one of the very few people in the forum that are not aware of "the" facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mlvraw

The admins are also forum users, that's why I posted it here

Which, considering rn I'm de facto admin of all official ML social media is a bit worrying there's "the" group we don't even know about and even ML developers are admins. Names was also not aware.

I've heard of this group, but it somehow missed our attention that Bilal is admin there.
Thanks for explanation. I ping'd Bilal on Discord.

What Facebook group?
We don't have any official FB groups, only FB fanpage.

Let me add to the news:
We re-gained access to (what we thought was) long gone official Magic Lantern Youtube channel - yes, the one with ML v2.3 promo video from 12 years ago! (and also to ML Vimeo account)

It took almost 2 years of digging and trying to contact people who in many cases left this community many years ago. But we got lucky and after I was able to get in touch with @Bart we found out that by sheer luck we was still able to get access there and get me rights needed for the channel management.

No posts = no progress, this has never changed.

This is unfortunately lack of resources and helplessness fighting with bots. Reality is that 95% of registered accounts were spam bots anyway and this project lacks manpower to work with it. We literally deleted a few dozens accounts daily, and tbh there's not a single moderator available that is willing to spend so much time on useless work.

We are aware of most of those issues, but have no solution available to any of them. If you know any good anti-bot measure for SMF forums, that runs on SMF 2.1.x - we will be happy to test it out, removing most of existing measures in place.

Anyway, I corrected the twitter handle question to accept "@" answer, and rephrased another question into "For which camera manufacturers Magic Lantern is available?"

Re: general challenges - those questions are designed to require reading 2 lines of text and visiting home page to find answers for other questions.
This variant was somehow successful against spammers, which is contrary to other security questions we used earlier.

I also took the liberty of editing your post to hide the answers.

I guess that's a duplicate of https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=27198.0 ?

Won't happen. M100 runs PowerShot firmware flavour - thus it is CHDK target.

So I went to discord and asked about it and they told me that there never will be a 80D version of magic lantern

Who said that?

Could you please update us of your intentions about the 80D firmware ?

There are no intentions. Digic 6 is just hard to get working due to its unique design. It is just easier in later models running Digic 7 and 8.
Remember this is just a hobby project of a few people. We work on it when we feel like it, and work on what we want. I have a pile of 10+ Canon cameras and tbh I favour EOS R as it was my re-entry into Canon ecosystem - and also my entry into Magic Lantern / camera hacking world.

I think quite a few models got magic lantern a lot sooner than 80D

Then you are wrong - right now they exist just two "builds" of Magic Lantern for newer models: one for EOS M50 - which does nothing except card benchmark. And one for 200d which also doesn't have almost any features - it was released as a proof of concept that project is still alive.

I think you should get familiar with Current state of Magic Lantern project. This will answer many of your questions.

I bought a new motherboard from Aliexpress, installed it and nothing happened. I am going to keep buying parts untill i will changed everything.

Honestly, that was not the wise idea. Probably you paid more for that board that camera is worth itself.
I'd look for a faulty shutter unit and then... just swap parts until it works.

Do you know how Canon limits the focus on RP at 4K? Wondering if it's a Hardware or Software limitation.

No idea, I don't have a working RP, nor I investigated focus stuff.

With the fast card you have, recording at 3k@24, do you see any temp bump, beyond the one you posted before?

Those were like 3 minutes bursts, I didn't see any high temp rise. Hard to test with so small card for the job though

D8 cams have buffer >= 1920x1080, so is is true 1080p+.
Not tested for line skipping/binning atm (R does binning).

How low spec we can get with mlv_lite?

SX740 the answer... at least for now
Yes, the jpeg-only cam now records RAW too.


Interface seems to max out at 86R/80W. Not enough for continuous 1080p at a normal frame rate.
But tbh that was mostly a test "if sx740 can do it, every model can do it".

SX740 lacks EDMAC mem2mem copy code which I partially used on R so I had to reimplement whole EDMAC memcopy using pure EDMAC functions and cross my fingers that channels used by R were unused here. And it worked fine

8.8.1 / 8.8.4 is internal firmware version.

We can't help with 1 series as we don't touch those. As written above, Tornado EOS will likely help you.

Some fun tests with fast card (Adata 64GB 290MB/s).
Benchmarks top in-cam at 220MB/s write. That's enough for continuous 1080p60 and borderline for 3k@24p (literally, requires card warmup to not stop immediately).

This also means 4k 16 bit uncompressed is impossible at usable FPS. Maybe 10 bit lossless, but at this moment we don't know how to do 10 bit or how to do lossless.

g3gg0 restored wiki from backup, as missing SMF integration led into massive spam infestation. It is integrated with SMF again (requires separate login, but with forum credentials)

Videos, both youtube and vimeo should be fixed. Took a plugin... and some fixes to that plugin.
If any is still not playing (but if you use qoute to get the link and it plays fine directly on vimeo/yt), please link it in this topic.

Also InfoCenter shows again just the last message in given topic.

All video embeds are broken. Turns out prior to now SMF had to use a plugin, now they support the same tags out of the box... but changed how they work because why not.

There's a workaround posted on their forums... hopefully it will fix them without editing all posts in database.

One more: youtube embeds are broken.

So what happen here ? I'm lost can't even found the latest posts it's so out of place even going to desktop version doesn't help . I hope the old site is coming back soon.

SMF (forum script) was updated to a new major version. Not sure if old style (which was default SMF style for years) is even included with the new one.

Former version: Only *latest* post in a thread.

Ah yes, that felt odd while beta testing update yesterday - but I didn't catch what exactly has changed, only that something did.

And what with the "I agree" thing when I logged in ? It doesn't even give the terms of the agreement so what I'm I Agreeing too here ?

Already gone or I'm not sure where it is?

Ok, forgot about that one  Nah, SX740 - it will be fun to see if this point-and-shoot can do 1080p30. D8, gig of RAM, only UHS1 though. Seems enough.

What is your distro? Old Ubuntu required for old repo?

permission denied is weird, try to run that script directly, maybe you are missing python3 or git. Or somehow it is missing executable bit.
This is literally a python3 script that runs two git commands.

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kitor@kitor-p73:5D2.212$ ../../build_tools/git_summary.py
268224668 raw_draft_v2%

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I so regret selling my eos  rp now.

I kinda expect RP to be the same +/- sensor.
Can't test as I'm still hunting for a donor RP and 250D motherboards - RP was sent my way by one of our community members; 250D i found myself - both exhibit the same issue with power circuit. I tried reviving those, with a great help from @vth (from photo-parts.com.ua) but it seems I got unlucky and got too many dead PMICs (which are unavailable except sourcing them from Canon boards). Funny is that IIRC @coon has two dead RP boards that exhibit similar issue - only MPU wakes up and complains about PMICs i2c responses.

Anyway, I'm going to check another D8 cam soon. The most ridiculous one

I found the code, R has 5 sensors: SH, MAIN, A, WM, BACK.
I did a test, started with 27, 32, 31, 29, 26 C. Recorded half of 64G card in 1080p30 (that was 3 minutes). Temps after recording: 29, 35, 33, 29, 27.