I have just been trying 0.9.0 (Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64, Maverick PPA) and
downloading some content from my wife's HTC Wildfire phone with camera.
Several issues have arisen which I'd like to raise.
(1) All sorts of icons (.png or .mdpi.png files) are downloaded from the
phone, clearly parts of applications; plus album cover artwork and
wallpapers. It appears that the import process is not limiting itself to
the DCIM directory, but is slurping up anything that looks like a photo,
anywhere on the memory card.
This is not exactly a problem, except (a) it needs tidying up afterwards (or
manual selective import), and (b) it's not safe to say "delete files after
importing", as this is likely to break all the apps which depend on those
icons!
This could be a problem with gphoto2, since "gphoto2 --list-files" shows
them all. Here's the relevant software versions:
$ dpkg-query -l | grep gphoto
ii gphoto2 2.4.5-2
The gphoto2 digital camera command-line client
ii libgphoto2-2 2.4.8-0ubuntu2
gphoto2 digital camera library
ii libgphoto2-port0 2.4.8-0ubuntu2
gphoto2 digital camera port library
The only config file I can find for gphoto2 is /etc/sane.d/gphoto2.conf
(from the libsane package)
$ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/sane.d/gphoto2.conf
port=serial:/dev/ttyd1
speed=115200
camera=Kodak DC240
dumpinquiry
resolution=1280x960
thumb_resolution=160x120
topfolder=/DCIM
However, strace'ing the gphoto2 binary shows it not reading any etc or conf
file.
So, is there any way to get shotwell to restrict itself to the DCIM
directory?
(2) More seriously, there are a number of videos on the phone in .3gp
format, and for some reason these are not imported at all. They are not
even displayed in the import window. But checking manually, they do exist:
$ find /media/3166-3733/ -iname '*.3gp'
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0002.3gp
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0003.3gp
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0006.3gp
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0005.3gp
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0007.3gp
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/VIDEO0008.3gp
(and checking the Pictures directory after the import shows that they have
not been imported)
I did a separate test with my older Canon camera (which uses .avi) and the
videos on that *were* visible in the import preview.
Now, this is probably also a problem with gphoto2, because --list-files
shows me the .jpg and .png files but no .3gp ones:
$ gphoto2 --list-files | grep -i 3gp
$
If that's the case, I have no idea how to fix it. (I found a shotwell
release note saying that .srw files needed a newer release of gphoto2, but
nothing about .3gp)
As a workaround, I can use shotwell's "Import from Folder..." and point it
at the mounted camera. Actually, if I point it at the DCIM directory then
that's a workaround for issue (1) as well. But it makes Shotwell a lot less
"plug and play" than it could be.
(3) On the shotwell import screen, a bunch of images where displayed as
rectangles with a red circle crossed through. This includes all the .png
files mdpi.png, but also includes some of the jpeg images, for example
IMAG0061.jpg and IMAG0062.jpg
Permissions on these files appear to be fine, and I can open them in gthumb:
$ ls -l /media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0061.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 1653955 2011-03-12 14:39
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0061.jpg
$ ls -l /media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0062.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 1662646 2011-03-12 15:39
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0062.jpg
$ file /media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0061.jpg
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0061.jpg: JPEG image data, EXIF standard
$ file /media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0062.jpg
/media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0062.jpg: JPEG image data, EXIF standard
$ gthumb /media/3166-3733/DCIM/100MEDIA/IMAG0061.jpg
Is there any reason why these shouldn't be visible in the preview?
This isn't a major problem, because the pictures *were* imported
successfully:
$ find Pictures -name 'IMAG0061.jpg'
Pictures/2011/03/12/IMAG0061.jpg
$ find Pictures -name 'IMAG0062.jpg'
Pictures/2011/03/12/IMAG0062.jpg
It's just strange they weren't displayed in the preview. They're not even
the largest images in the camera - some have larger file sizes than those.
Regards,
Brian.
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