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Sony, where are you?

Paraphrasing here -

Ash: I’m still collating.
Ridley: You’re still collating?
Ash: Yes, what would you have me do?
Ridley: Just what you’ve been doing, Ash...nothing.
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Life is too short for pain like that. My main interest is uploading to the phone or iPad. Apple's lightning SD card reader does the trick and doesn't make me want to smash things.

This category of application seems ripe for innovation on the iPad/iPhone. The one Panasonic has is equally bad and is hit and miss with my FZ2500. I simply use the SD card accessory and get on with life.
 
I wish I could use my iPhone 11 as a webcam linked to my MacBook Pro.

Get EpocCam from the iOS app store. It works perfectly, over either USB or wifi. There's a free version with watermarks and a paid version that is HD and does green screen.
 
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Blows my mind that GoPro is not actively doing this.
Not just yours...
Man, I would love this for my Nikon Z6. Being able to just plug in the USB-C and get a feed with full frame video...
Nikon and software is ridicolous... I have a D600 myself and really like it but feature-wise Nikon is stuck 10 years ago. These days photography is more than just taking a picture. I'd like it geotagged please so I can look up it on the map later. I'd like builit-in WiFi that can upload the pictures (at least the JPEGs) over at least WiFi-5 these days to the laptop/desktop or the phone. That must be possible without any dongles. WiFi-Tethering as well.
Crazy that we still need a driver to enable this in 2020.
Absolutely!
 
OK, so why is NO ONE mentioning the challenge / problem of concurrently capturing Audio & having it Sync'd to the Video ?

Precise A/V Sync is the real challenge, & achieving it is where the real value is !

Specifically, (concurrently) capturing from an Ext Mic & syncing that to the Video !
 
OK, so why is NO ONE mentioning the challenge / problem of concurrently capturing Audio & having it Sync'd to the Video ?

Precise A/V Sync is the real challenge, & achieving it is where the real value is !

Specifically, (concurrently) capturing from an Ext Mic & syncing that to the Video !
Because it's not really a challenge... First you are supposed to use the mic of the cam, so the cam should take care of providing a muxed stream.
If you want to use the desktops mic, just give the user the ability to increase or decrease the videobuffer from the camera using a slider for x milliseconds. Anyway you are aiming for as instant as possible, but in case the mic of the machine has some delay due to echo/noise cancellation algorithms etc, you can delay the video accordingly.
Last but least... for webcam use it's not that important...
 
Apple's standards these days usually means a closed-loop system which is tied to Apple software and devices only. That's not a standard. That's the opposite of a standard. H.323, H.263, H.264, H.265-SVC, H.265 and SIP are all real standards that have been used for video and audio communications for decades already (in case of the H.26x they have been evolving and the later versions have only very recently been adopted, naturally).

Talking about a protocol interfacing with the camera. Wasn't talking about codecs.

If Apple was really interested in "Standards" they would have opened FaceTime up so that it could be standards compliant, but that would mean that it would have to be able to talk to other SIP clients, which, of course, is not in Apple's interest. FaceTime is using the H.264 and H.265 codecs and SIP protocol, so it should be quite easy to open it up for interoperability between other clients, but naaah... That's not the Apple way.

First version of FaceTime got Apple in trouble because they used a patent that allowed FaceTime to connect users in a peer to peer way. Apple lost the lawsuit from VirnetX and had to axe the Open plan. That's the main reason why FaceTime in iOS 7 could not talk with iOS 6 users.
 
Now if only Sony would do this so I can use my a7R III and have the prettiest webcam bokeh and lowest noise on the block.
 
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