What would happen if you copy the photo into a different folder, and not with incremental names? Does your camera show them?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ewan Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > F-spot-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list > > _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
