Re: time lapse feature

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

daniel g. siegel schrieb:
> On Mo, 2009-05-11 at 12:19 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM,  <A J Delaney brighton ac uk> wrote:
>>> I hacked up a Cheese patch to support timelapse:
>>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581997
>>> However, I don't think this patch achieves timelapse in a sane way.  So
>>> I've got a proposal as to how I think I should implement timelapse in a
>>> more sane manner.  However, the patch shows that Cheese can successfully
>>> do timelapse.
>> It's not a pretty solution. I think this sort of functionality belongs
>> in a proper gstreamer element. This would let it do other potentially
>> useful things like detect movement and only encode frames that are
>> significantly different or even add subtitles stream/overlay with date
>> and time.
> 
> time lapse itself is probably not one of the targets cheese should aim
> to, however taking a series of photos could be of course.
> 
> i think, if we are able to add that to cheese, and leave some
> configurations options in gconf, we can satisfy both targets.
> 
> daniel
> 

In GstCameraBin it works so that in the img-done signal callback one can return
FALSE for ending the capture or set a new file-name and return TRUE to take
more. UI wise it go so that it does a burst-mode while the capture button is
pressed (in the burst capture mode).

Stefan