On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 22:33 +0100, Ewan Davies 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.
Look at how we detect camera for import. > > 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? ptp supports that... on supported cameras. and yes, f-spot has ptp supports through gphoto2 s > > 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
