This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR).

Written by:                  Peter Juszack <vdr@unterbrecher.de>

Project's homepage:          http://turku.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pjuszack/digicam

Latest version available at: http://turku.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pjuszack/digicam/download/digicam.tgz

See the file COPYING for license information.

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Description:

digicam is a plugin for the VDR video disc recorder by Klaus Schmidinger.
It provides access to digital cameras using libgphoto2.
This is a very eraly TESTING version - so always remember. Feel free to report
any bugs or results to the given mail address.
At the moment images cannot be viewed with this plugin. I use the IMAGE plugin
for that purpose.

NOTE: I just tested with my CANON EOS 300D and VDR 1.3.17

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Is my camera supported?

The plugin should work with all models supported by libgphoto2. To check that install
libgphoto2 and the gphoto2 commandline tool and type

gphoto2 --list-cameras

To test if it really works connect the camera to the VDR and type

gphoto2 --shell

That opens a shell and you can browse your camera (type dir to get a file list).
If that works your camera will probably will work with the plugin

NOTE: cameras which can be mounted as SCSI mass storage are not supported by 
libgphoto2

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Features (all tested with a CANON EOS 300D):

- support for USB digital cameras supported by gphoto2
  type: gphoto2 --list-cameras to see if your model is supported
  
- browsing your cameras storage area

- view general camera information

- view some image/directory parameters

- load image from camera and store on disc

- information ( file count and size of all files) for direcories on the camera 
  ( sub directories are ignored because mostly not present on a camera )
    
- load all images from a directory and save to disc. (can be started as thread)

- browsing menu to choose the destination for downloaded files

- create directories on disc to store images in

- deleting images and directories from the camera storage area

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Installation notes:

  for installation notes see INSTALL

Manual:
  for usage see MANUAL

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NEXT TODOs:

- file name generation when storing ( e.g. IMG + counter.jpg )

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FURTHER PERSPECTIVES:

- integration into the image plugin
    - loading thumbnails
    - view EXIF image description fields
