Hello f-spot list,

I have a Sony camera which I can connect to a TV to view my photos. The
bundled software PMB allows transferring photos FROM the computer TO the
camera to facilitate viewing on the TV but on windows only. This is not
implemented in f-spot so I am writing an extension to provide this export
functionality.

My problem is that I don't know what is the best way to access the camera.
Since different vendors have different naming schemes, my current
implementation asks the user to find the root of the device with a
GtkFileChooserButton, and then I have (ugly) code to look for a "dcim"
subfolder. I take the last subdir (alphabetically) of dcim and the filename
of the last photo. The photo should have a 'prefix' such as "dsc" and a
number such as "03040" which I look for and then increment the number as I
copy across each photo.

This obviously has its limitations (although does what I want...) and I
would like to know if there are any people knowledgeable of camera
filesystems who could help.

Another question is whether PTP would be better, but I don't know anything
about the protocol. Would cameras ACCEPT photos over PTP or are they export
only? My hope is that via PTP the camera would sort out naming and file
structure automatically in its own vendor-specific manner. Is PTP
implemented in F-Spot?

Thanks for your time,

Ewan
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