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[Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx>]

HI Nick,

I do hope you find the program useful. I also use Bibble 5.

The plans for supporting PTP cameras depends completely on the work of
others, in the sense that the program makes use of other people's libraries.
Recent versions of Gnome include GIO, which is a work in progress. Some
cameras are supported much better than others. Hopefully support will
improve over time. Meanwhile, you may like to consider purchasing an
inexpensive card reader. In addition to downloads working reliably, you will
very likely find that download speeds will increase significantly,
especially if your memory cards are of reasonable speed.

There are no reliable python bindings for gphoto2.

Damon

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, <nick-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for rapid-photo-downloader , it looks like it'll be really
> handy. I'm going to be using it with Bibble 5 I expect.
>
> How are the plans for supporting PTP cameras?
>
> Maybe it works somehow for people already? Not for me - it looks as if
> the code is expecting the files to be actually mounted into the
> filesystem.
>
> My PTP camera doesn't get mounted into the filesystem (maybe I'm not
> running some daemon that others are?) - but GVFS can access it:
>
>  $ gvfs-mount "gphoto2://[usb:005,033]/"
>  $ gvfs-ls "gphoto2://[usb:005,033]/"
>  DCIM
>
> I had to get that USB address from gphoto2:
>
>  $ gphoto2 --auto-detect
>  Model                          Port
>  ----------------------------------------------------------
>  Nikon DSC D90 (PTP mode)       usb:
>  Nikon DSC D90 (PTP mode)       usb:005,033
>
> I think we could access the files via GIO from Python, without having
> to actually mount into the regular filesystem?
>
> (I've used f-spot for importing the photos previously, over PTP.)
>
>  Nick
>
> --
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