in this case you want to rewrite the whole thing to avoid going
through gphoto i guess. if you go through it, you don't know you
actually have the file available.

j.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Mattias Eriksson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, it seems that this problem mostly occurs when the sdcard is mounted
> directly, which means that we actually have access to the raw file.
>
>
> 2012/11/25 johannes hanika <[email protected]>
>>
>> the problem is you don't have the raw file. it's on the camera and now
>> you have to talk to gphoto.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mattias Eriksson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I realize that the import was modified to use the embedded raw
>> > thumbnails,
>> > and looking at the import code I find this:
>> >     int ret;
>> >     libraw_data_t *raw = libraw_init(0);
>> >     libraw_processed_image_t *image = NULL;
>> >     ret = libraw_open_file(raw, filename);
>> >     if(ret) goto libraw_fail;
>> >     ret = libraw_unpack_thumb(raw);
>> >     if(ret) goto libraw_fail;
>> >
>> > I assume that this code will unpack the thumbnail from the raw file,
>> > without
>> > reading the whole file. So maybe something similar could be used in the
>> > import dialog for the case when gphoto doesn't provide a preview and the
>> > file is a raw file?
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/11/25 Mattias Eriksson <[email protected]>
>> >>
>> >> When I'm thinking about this, I guess gphoto2 is the wrong place for
>> >> something like this since it handles the transport and not parsing of
>> >> raw
>> >> files. I guess the raw library should be extended (if it doesn't
>> >> already
>> >> have it) with a function to read the embeded thumbnails with as little
>> >> overhead as possible? Does that sound like the right way to solve this?
>> >> It
>> >> would be good to hear from the RAW specialists about how to handle
>> >> this.
>> >>
>> >> //Snaggen
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2012/11/25 Mattias Eriksson <[email protected]>
>> >>>
>> >>> >From what I understand it is this code passage in the file
>> >>> common/camera_control.c that handles the previews. So the situation as
>> >>> I
>> >>> understand it is that when we connect the camera directly, the gphoto
>> >>> library is served a preview by the camera. But when we connect the
>> >>> sdcard
>> >>> gphoto will not have a preview version of the image and the file size
>> >>> of my
>> >>> raw files is larger than 512000 bytes. But since NEF files actually
>> >>> have a
>> >>> preview embeded it might be possible to read this without reading the
>> >>> whole
>> >>> file? But maybe that should be inside gphoto2? Does anyone have any
>> >>> knowledge about that library?
>> >>>
>> >>>         /*
>> >>>          * Fetch image preview if flagged...
>> >>>          */
>> >>>         if( flags & CAMCTL_IMAGE_PREVIEW_DATA )
>> >>>         {
>> >>>           gp_file_new(&preview);
>> >>>           if( gp_camera_file_get(c->active_camera->gpcam, path,
>> >>> filename,
>> >>> GP_FILE_TYPE_PREVIEW,preview,c->gpcontext) < GP_OK )
>> >>>           {
>> >>>             // No preview for file lets check image size to se if we
>> >>> should download full image for preview...
>> >>>             if( cfi.file.size > 0  && cfi.file.size < 512000 )
>> >>>               if( gp_camera_file_get(c->active_camera->gpcam, path,
>> >>> filename, GP_FILE_TYPE_NORMAL,preview,c->gpcontext) < GP_OK )
>> >>>               {
>> >>>                 preview=NULL;
>> >>>                 dt_print(DT_DEBUG_CAMCTL,"[camera_control] failed to
>> >>> retreive preview of file %s\n",filename);
>> >>>               }
>> >>>           }
>> >>>         }
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> //Snaggen
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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