Re: gvfs-gphoto breaks support for mtp music players

[Alan <alan mcgovern gmail com>]

That's a doable long term goal alright. But for right now, can we at
least make it possible for the gphoto backend to fully and completely
release the PTP device when unmount is called so that once the unmount
is complete, the device is available for another application to grab?
If that means blocking for a few seconds for the initial Mount
operation to complete and then just follow up with an Unmount, i'm
perfectly ok with that.

Alan.

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Zeuthen <zeuthen gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>> We already had this discussion, and GIO just cannot support those
>> players. A lot of them require the metadata before the data, so you
>> can't use a file-based access to add them.
>
> Maybe the solution is to have a libmtp GVfs backend and somehow make
> that expose the "metadata before data" API that you need (whatever
> that means). I don't know. But I do know that the solution isn't to
> keep having multiple user-mode apps bang on the same hardware (except
> for very special purpose feature like e.g. tethered shooting etc.).
>
>    David
>