Bug 202832

Summary:	media-gfx/canon-capture-cvs ebuild request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	cmuelle8 <cmue81>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://capture.cvs.sourceforge.net/capture/capture/ChangeLog?view=markup
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	canon-capture-cvs-20080106.ebuild canon-capture-cvs-v4l_jpeg.diff.bz2

Description cmuelle8 2007-12-20 00:31:44 UTC

It's a very useful utility to remotely control and capture images from a canon camera.  A lot of settings can be tuned and the utility can be used in scripts, since it's just a cli app (with gtk support for some extra functions like the viewfinder).

Although the website states that there are no active code changes, there is a slow development pace going throughout the year.  Since they don't actually do releases, I suggest a cvs ebuild.

canon-capture depends on libptp2 and the ebuild should probably rename the binary, since "capture" might very easily collide with other projects - I suggest canon-capture.

Post, if you have any questions..

Happy upcoming Holidays,
cmuelle8

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 cmuelle8 2008-01-07 03:12:07 UTC

Created attachment 140347 [details]
canon-capture-cvs-20080106.ebuild

live cvs ebuild, applies v4l patches for canon cameras before building .. does fancy things in combination with vloopback..

Comment 2 cmuelle8 2008-01-07 03:15:21 UTC

Created attachment 140348 [details]
canon-capture-cvs-v4l_jpeg.diff.bz2

v4l patch to capture..

if u use v4l alone -> internal decoding and rgb24 streaming
if u use v4l and jpeg useflags -> libjpeg decoding with YUV420P (I420) streaming


have fun

Comment 3 Marek Szuba archtester

2016-04-21 11:18:38 UTC

Upstream of this project seems to be dead, there hasn't been any activity in it since 2007. Moreover, the "keep lens extracted until explicitly allowed to retract it" feature for Canon cameras, which according to the project page was the main feature distinguishing it from GPhoto (which, by the way, supports capture from many more Canon cameras), is now available in the latter too - see the "Configuring for capture" section of http://gphoto.org/doc/remote/ .

All in all, seems like a clear WONTFIX candidate.