Only use one Canon EOS software at a time.
Cannon launched the ‘EOS Webcam Utility’ that lets EOS DSLR owners make use of the camera to function as a webcam for video conferencing applications such as Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and many more to get a better camera configuration.
We wrote a comprehensive guide to using EOS Webcam Utility to set up a compatible Canon DSLR camera as a webcam on an Windows 10 computer. But, for those users who also happen to utilize Canon’s EOS Utility application to link the camera to your PC You may notice it difficult to use the EOS Webcam Utility is not running on your computer.
The Canon DSLR camera can only communicate with one program at one time. If you have both ‘EOS Utility’ as well as the EOS Webcam Utility running simultaneously on your computer The webcam utility will not display your camera’s feed in the video conferencing application.
To correct this issue
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Close the EOS Utility application closed whenever you’re planning to use the ‘EOS Webcam Utility’ on your PC
In order for ‘EOS Webcam Utility to function in videoconferencing applications You must completely shut down the app ‘EOS Utility’ on your computer, and remove the ‘Start EOS Utility automatically whenever you connect your camera’ feature within the application.
disable the EOS Utility app to launch automatically when the cameras are connected. Right-click on the EOS Utility icon in the tray of the app on the Taskbar and then select the “Do not launch the EOS utility immediately once the camera has been connected’ option in the drop-down menu.
Completely shut down the EOS Utility app by accessing the same menu by right-clicking on the app icon on the Windows 10 Taskbar tray, and then selecting the option to quit in the drop-down menu.
After ensuring that the ‘EOS Utility’ program is shut down and your computer is not running. Attach your camera your computer to use it as a webcam using EOS Webcam Utility’.
This could be required.
Restart your computer
Even after closing the app ‘EOS Utility’ and preventing it to open automatically after you connect the camera The ‘EOS Webcam Utility isn’t working on your computer, restart your PC.
Restarting your computer can reset your USB connections, among other things and will likely solve the issue for us.
EOS Webcam Utility is a beta program, so there could be a variety of reasons that it fails to function. However, we experienced the issue while the “EOS Utility’ application ran on our system. The app was closed and the issue was fixed. We hope that this article will help you in the same way.