In Bambu Studio’s Device tab the camera looks like it’s flying all over the place. In real-life it’s just laying down a straight line. Timelapse seems to record o.k…
I captured the screen and posted as a YouTube video:
Camera screen capture (youtube)
I searched here but didn’t find any other mention of this as a problem. Seems to be the same across two different computers. Both macOS.
Ideas?
Both computers connected to the same network? The video feed, I have been led to believe, is not local network traffic. It goes out to BBL’s servers and then comes back to the app. So a crummy network connection will make it do the same things NetFlix does with a crummy connection. The timelapse is good because those frames are recorded locally on the SD card. It proves the problem isn’t in the camera and points at the network or possibly a Mac related issue.
If you connect your phone to the same network (not over Cellular, turn that off and use WiFi only) does the video look better (go full screen)? If so, the issue is with the software on the Macs.
I’m not a Mac guy so I couldn’t help if that’s the case. Might be able to help with network, though. 
On the same network. No problems with up/down to Internet. Works better on phone. Appears to be the macOS bambu studio is the problem. Tried on a different mac, same glitches.
I experience the same issue on my Mac(13.5.1). iPhone it’s fine, and my PC it’s fine. I occasionally get weird grey and blue lines across the video feed on my Mac as well.
I encountered the exact same problem on macOS (Sonoma 14.0). Everything is fine in the Windows virtual machine and in Bamboo Handy on iOS. Everything is on one local network - iPhone on WiFi, my mac is connected via ethernet.
I have the exact same issue since move to 1.7.7.89 on Mac osx. Video looks like it is going fast forward, but suspect that it is either playing frames out of order, or dropping lots of frames making motion seem a lot quicker. As with others I get occasional green screen frames, more frequently when general motion has stopped, i.e. at the start and end of the job.
Using the handy app I can view the same feed on my iPad, the iPad version is slow smooth and with zero defects.
At first I thought it was a firmware issue, but it seems like it is strongly associated with the Mac OS software.
Same here on 1.8.2.56 on macOS 14.2.1. Frequent green frames and also frames getting played back in the wrong order (jumping back to old frames, making it look like the video is playing in reverse.)
+1 to same issue, still present in latest release
macOS 11.7.10
bambu studio 1.8.4.51
not sure if it’s related, but I run my printers on a separate “iot” vlan (i.e. separate network subnet on my home network). They can talk directly to each other, but some other sorts of apps will fall back to going through cloud servers if it doesnt detect device and app are on the same subnet, instead of trying some direct connection. Not even sure if that’s what Bambu Studio does.
I can confirm must be a bug w/ Bambu Studio, as I can open ~/Library/Application Support/BambuStudio/cameratools/ffmpeg.sdp in VLC and it plays perfect (very smooth, no glitching, no green flashing, etc)
per Streaming video of Bambu Printer | Bambu Lab Wiki
Only in Bambu Studio is it very glitchy w/ green flashes.
looks like they fixed this in a recent network plugin update (01.08.04.05)
nice work!
Interesting.
I’m a Mac, too and for me the ffmpeg.sdp file almost never works. In VLC I just get a freeze-frame, no video. And IF I get a video (sometimes it works after restarting/booting everything, even the X1C) it’s of bad quality.
I wish we had more controls over the ffmpeg commandline they fire up in the background!
Inside of Bambu Studio the stream works fine. However the compression seems to be WAY to strong. I see many many compressions artefacts all the time. What encoder are they using in what quality settings? H.264? Or H.265?
All in all a very sub par experience with the video feed on macOS. 