Ops Release Announcements - Windows CVS camcorder tool

Please make it an unofficial build - we want to keep this app as light and transportable across Windows/Linux as possible. There are tools in Linux to convert the raw images from the still camera, and the avi's from the camcorder. Similar tools exist in Windows (Picassa for the still cameras, for example), including the wonderful and free "Kate's Video Converter" to output the avi files in all types of media formats. The whole idea is to keep this cross-platform and free of any hooks. Right now it works Windows and Linux with no extras - nothing to worry about changing, updating, etc.. We'd prefer to keep it that way. Dave :)

I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 desktop tonight, made the new permissions file so I can access the cameras without being root, then tried compiling the GTK version - errors. I don't know if packages where renamed/replaced or what, but the libs on the gcc line don't seem to be found - gtk or glade - and in addition it is not finding the include of <gtk/gtk.h>. I suspect this would probably hold true on other systems as well - where gtk is, what version of gtk, what version of glade (not sure I even need that). So for now I have a post open on the Ubuntu forums looking for help on what changed. I'll keep you posted. Was a minor thing - I had glade-2.0 left in the pkg-config for gcc, but in reality wasn't using glade at all. Just removed it from the pkg-config string. Haven't re-tar'd it yet, so anyone who receives the tar will want to remove the libglade-2.0 string from the gcc line in gtk_only folder. Dave :)

a few quick system calls and I got it to convert to jpg you need imagemagick and dcraw in order to http://jeff.crowell.googlepages.com/unified_cvs_code_UNOFFICIAL_CONVERT2J.gz keep in mind, this is the UNOFFICIAL meaning it will probably not compile on windows and also the jpg conversion isnt that great, i need to find better way to do it..

I know you're going to hate this ( ;) ), but the cleanest way, especially so you don't have to worry about the cross platform worries, is to keep the conversion process external to the program. Find a program (or write one that doesn't use any platform specific calls or libs) that will take a folder name as input and convert what is in the folder to jpg. Keep that program platform independent, and things would work best. OR, create code, internal to cvsutil, which is again platform independent, and use one of the empty buttons on the "extra camera functions" menu to say "download as jpgs". Dave :)

I know you're going to hate this ( ;) ), but the cleanest way, especially so you don't have to worry about the cross platform worries, is to keep the conversion process external to the program. Find a program (or write one that doesn't use any platform specific calls or libs) that will take a folder name as input and convert what is in the folder to jpg. Keep that program platform independent, and things would work best. OR, create code, internal to cvsutil, which is again platform independent, and use one of the empty buttons on the "extra camera functions" menu to say "download as jpgs". Dave :) I know, this way was much easier and is a quick hack for me. If I get time, i'll try to create some cross platform code

I have an ISO image for an autostart CD for the installation process for the unified code in Windows. It gives a menu you just execute step-by-step. To be honest, I've got a mess on my system right now so I didn't actually test it all together, but I know the parts each work. Looking for (1) tester(s) and (2) a way to get a 21meg file to them. Dave :)

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