Canon IXUS record video continously

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Hello,

I'm having an annoying problem with my IXUS 40 (SD400 in the US). I
can't seem to make it shoot video for longer than 19seconds!

Annoying because everyone on here boasts that one of the selling points
of the camera is that it can continously shoot video. Which leads me to
believe its a user problem

any help would be greatly appreciated.
simon@*NOSPAM*simonharbour.com

Simon

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Simon,

I have the same problem, 19 seconds exactly. I have always assumed it was
because the camera could only buffer so much video and the buffer was
filling up.
I have never investigated further as I do not use the facility much but I am
interested in any answers.

Cheers
Pete

<simonharbour@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm having an annoying problem with my IXUS 40 (SD400 in the US). I
> can't seem to make it shoot video for longer than 19seconds!
>
> Annoying because everyone on here boasts that one of the selling points
> of the camera is that it can continously shoot video. Which leads me to
> believe its a user problem
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
> simon@*NOSPAM*simonharbour.com
>
> Simon
>

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On 10 May 2005 04:13:35 -0700, simonharbour@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm having an annoying problem with my IXUS 40 (SD400 in the US). I
> can't seem to make it shoot video for longer than 19seconds!

A review of the IXUS 40 in Digital Camera Buyer issue #27 states:

> The IXUS 40 can capture standard, compact and fast-frame movies
> with sound, and the length of these is only limited by the size of the
> SD card (if a high speed card is used).

If they're correct, it seems that you need a faster SD card to be
able to shoot longer movies.

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On 11 May 2005 05:00:35 -0700, Si wrote:

> Hmmm, that could make sense as when you capture a 19second movie it
> takes aaaaages to write to the card. I can only imagine how long it'd
> take for a say, 4min clip.

Yep. If the video data accumulates faster than it can be written
to the card, it starts to fill the camera's memory buffer. When
there's no room left and the buffer overflows, the camera stops
recording additional video but continues flushing its buffer to the
card. If the card is fast enough, there shouldn't be much of a
delay writing to the card when you stop shooting the video, since
there should be little or nothing in the buffer waiting to be
flushed to the card. My camera uses xD cards and they may all be
fast enough to capture continuous video. I haven't noticed any
delays after capturing long videos (at 640x480, 30fps, with sound),
and I haven't seen any of the various cards differentiated by speed.

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On 12 May 2005 03:41:03 -0700, simonharbour@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm currently looking into a 66x 512mb card at around £33 on
> www.ebuyer.co.uk (if anyone's interested and has the same problem.) i
> assume this'll fix the problem, if not...i'll have an even bigger stack
> of spare SD cards

If it allows your IXUS to create longer sustained videos let us
know!

Correction. If it doesn't help, let us know that too.

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On 13 May 2005 06:19:34 -0700, simonharbour@gmail.com wrote:

> so i'm the test monkey then?

Better than being the crash test dummy. <g>

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So...
(the suspense is killing me) did you get a faster card and did it make
any difference?

And what exactly constitutes a high speed card? And what doesn't?
(8x? 45x? 60x?)

--Peter