it looks like for some reason, it has no idea where it stands in the directory tree...odd.
Savant- 02-22-2008
Can someone rebuild the la-*test*-('") package to place where the png images should be in the correct directory? I just want to get this camera to work in Ubuntu and can't without any software to do it... And I don't even know where to put the images. >:o
anewguy- 02-23-2008
Can someone rebuild the la-*test*-('") package to place where the png images should be in the correct directory? I just want to get this camera to work in Ubuntu and can't without any software to do it... And I don't even know where to put the images. >:o
We do have a non-gui program (you can run it from a desktop launcher) that works with both the camcorders and the digital cameras. It works great in Ubuntu. It is in the threads here but pm me if you'd like a copy.
:)
anewguy- 05-09-2008
GUI'd version For anyone interested, I now have a GTK GUI version of the combination of avidownload and pv2tools. So it runs in a GUI and works with both the camcorders and the still cameras. It isn't fancy, it isn't original code - I merged the 2 and now added the GUI. Adding the GUI increased the size to 144k - still not huge, but not as small as the non-GUI version.
I know squat about packaging, etc., so if anyone wants any of it (source, executable, etc.) let me know. I have it running in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.
Also, please note that there has been a syntax change so what was prior to Hardy placed in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules to make the device world accessable (so you don't have to run the program as root). I have posted the solution in a thread I have in an Ubuntu forum. It also links to the page I found describing the change and therefore the syntax difference.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4916040#post4916040
:)
Savant- 05-09-2008
Re: GUI'd version For anyone interested, I now have a GTK GUI version of the combination of avidownload and pv2tools. So it runs in a GUI and works with both the camcorders and the still cameras. It isn't fancy, it isn't original code - I merged the 2 and now added the GUI. Adding the GUI increased the size to 144k - still not huge, but not as small as the non-GUI version.
I know squat about packaging, etc., so if anyone wants any of it (source, executable, etc.) let me know. I have it running in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.
Also, please note that there has been a syntax change so what was prior to Hardy placed in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules to make the device world accessable (so you don't have to run the program as root). I have posted the solution in a thread I have in an Ubuntu forum. It also links to the page I found describing the change and therefore the syntax difference.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4916040#post4916040
:)
Send me a PM with the source package link and I'll make a deb for it and host it. I'm running hardy as well and can get a Debian install to make a regular deb as well.
anewguy- 05-21-2008
I need to finish one part of the code so it uses the GUI instead of the message area on the screen, then I'll see if I can get something.
In the mean time, follow http://www.anewguy.freetzi.com to see some sample screen shots. Forgive the ads on that web page - it's a free site so they use ads to pay for it.
I would be interested in eventually adding more of the features that OPS for Windows has, but that will come in time. For now, you can download all of the video or pictures from your camera or camcorder (works with both!), clear the memory and show the challenge key from the camera for use in one of the keygen programs.
It is important to me to note that there is very little original code in this program. I have combined the command line based avidownload by SaturnNights and parts of PV2TOOL by BillW and others into a single GUI based program.
Since this program uses libusb and GTK, and both are available for Windows, I would be interested in someone doing the endian thing and whatever else might be needed to try to get this to run in Windows as well. I'm hoping that can be with defines, so that the code base would be the same for Linux and Windows.
If you check out the images on the web page above, let me know what you think.
Thanks,
anewguy :)
EDIT: BTW, I use desktop effects in Ubuntu, so I have window transparency on. I should have mentioned that because the screenshots might look like you can see through parts of them and that's not the program, that's the desktop effects I have running.
Savant- 05-21-2008
From the screenshots, it's not half bad. If you could somehow make it a plugin for F-Spot or gThumb through a hack, that would be the ideal (perhaps an in-program mode where F-Spot or whatever probe for the camera and then can download and upload...) but this is great too. Thanks for the work and I hope to get the source to this soon.
anewguy- 05-21-2008
From the screenshots, it's not half bad. If you could somehow make it a plugin for F-Spot or gThumb through a hack, that would be the ideal (perhaps an in-program mode where F-Spot or whatever probe for the camera and then can download and upload...) but this is great too. Thanks for the work and I hope to get the source to this soon.
I'll hope you'll forgive me, but right now I don't have a clue as to how to do that. If there is a how-to or something somewhere, if you could point me to it could take a look at it, but it might be a little while. I'm on disability, so I have plenty of time, but my C skills are SO rusty and behind the times that it takes me a while to figure out what some stuff is doing! :) :)
Savant- 05-21-2008
For F-Spot, I think maybe some extension that would grep for a camera and then dump the pictures into a temporary directory. Then the user can decide what to do with these photos (like where they should go, resize, add comments, tag, etc. whatever F-Spot allows) and then the photos are copied to their locations. Then you rebuild the F-Spot database (it's in SQLite format, but I think F-Spot should have hooks to latch into for this) to include the newly added photos. It's all C#, so if you are familiar with Java then it wouldn't be much of a change.
I think I might have to take the gThumb thing back. It uses what I believe is libgphoto2, so you'd have to hack that... which I think would be a lot more work.
I guess F-Spot is the way to go?
anewguy- 05-22-2008
Savant:
I have a tar of the source and executable but don't know where to put it that you could get access from. The tar is 330kb so I could attach to an email but I don't know if I can attach things to PM's here.
Savant- 05-22-2008
I have the package and am conferring with a friend as to how to put the DEB together (it's been a while lol).
anewguy- 05-22-2008
I have the package and am conferring with a friend as to how to put the DEB together (it's been a while lol).
Thanks! If anyone is interested, they can feel free to contact SautrnNights or BillW to see if it can be added to the group at sourceforge.net.
anewguy- 05-26-2008
Get camcorder response directly from camcorder? I was just out checking sites on the net I hadn't looked at for quite a while, and I noticed one of them now says you can retrieve the response for the challenge directly from the camcorder - see:
http://www.maushammer.com/systems/cvscamcorder/usb.html
I've been trying like heck on that, and so far just have all zeros in the response key retrieved from the camera. I know the challenge retrieval starts at 0x00 and goes to 0x7F for the index, while that web page claims the response key is in index 0x80 to 0xFF.
Has anyone working with ops had any luck trying to do this?
SaturnNiGHTS- 05-26-2008
Re: Get camcorder response directly from camcorder? I was just out checking sites on the net I hadn't looked at for quite a while, and I noticed one of them now says you can retrieve the response for the challenge directly from the camcorder - see:
http://www.maushammer.com/systems/cvscamcorder/usb.html
I've been trying like heck on that, and so far just have all zeros in the response key retrieved from the camera. I know the challenge retrieval starts at 0x00 and goes to 0x7F for the index, while that web page claims the response key is in index 0x80 to 0xFF.
Has anyone working with ops had any luck trying to do this?
heh...that's quite old stuff. that's the original write up done by john maushammer . that applies to, i believe, the old 3?.?? format of firmware. past that, they changed the unlocker mechanism.
rbrown3rd- 09-12-2008
Tried running the Ops-for-linux on my Hardy desktop. Looks like it unlocked my camera. I copied my saturnkeys.txt over from my windows machine. But, after that I cannot get anything to work. I got the following:
Found the camcorder: Pure Digital Inc. Saturn , VID:167B PID:0101
Found camcorder.
ERROR: (io/open_device.c, 38): Couldn't connect to camcorder.
ERROR: (open_camcorder.c, 15): Camera can be found but can't be opened.
ERROR: (open_camcorder.c, 16): Maybe you're not running as superuser (root)?
Would someone mind giving me a bit of a helping hand? I ran it with a "sudo Ops" command. Am I doing something wrong?
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