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
>
>   
A timelapse element in gstreamer imho makes no sense (you can use
videorate to e.g. get 2fps for a while, as doing a timelaps on e.g.
30fps is not that useful in many cases).

I still like to know what cheese developers think about camerabin though.

Stefan