Re: Export to Camera

[Bin Tian <wjshtb gmail com>]

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 <ewan davies googlemail com> 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
>
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