I stumbled onto this whole thread this morning and now have timelapse running...just have to say that this whole endeavour from the original perl script to the current Qt app is just brilliant. Massive kudos to all involved.

1.) Exposure should be only set once, focus I'm not sure, maybe put a switch for that ? Or just put it how you want it and we will scream if it's wrong
2.)No idea
3.)Wonderful! Great. Thank you so very much!

Hi.
It's been 10 days since last post here. Is everything OK ?
Sorry, I'm not trying to bug anyone or be annoying, it just seems there was a post almost every day before, so I'm getting a bit worried.

Thanks

Sorry man, everything is fine, I'm just a little pressed for time, right now. and the world cup is on, which also steals a fair amount of time

Hi
My name is Ben.me very new to maemo.When i tried to install "gstreamer-tools", i got an error.

"sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

what the reason for this error message.please help me

anybody please help me..

you have to be root to use dpkg. for that, install rootsh and type "sudo gainroot" in XTerminal.
after that, install as instructed.
Hope that helps

Ok guys, I know I've been away for a while. Sorry about that.
So, apparently, Fcam and FCamera are out. Since Fcamera seems to have a lot of functionality that I was hoping to integrate into TimeLapse i think I'll just stop developing it.
However, TimeLapse's main functionality (time lapse photography) is not included there but it should be really easy to implement, given that everything else is done. I suggest that we suggest this to fcamera's development team. it should be really easy for them to implement this.


If nobody does it in the short term, I might just try to add that to Fcamera. I'm going to start looking at the code shortly. Some stuff can be improved in fcamera and there's lots to be done and so on, but maybe I can just contribute the code to fcamera's project so that new versions of fcamera will include that function (instead of forking the project and having to recompile new versions everytime a new version is released).

Thanks for all the support guys, I learned a lot from all this. I'm sad of abandoning TimeLapse but I think this is the right thing to do.

Tiago

Hey,

I'm one of the FCam developers, and time lapse is definitely not a feature in our sample FCamera application right now.

We haven't quite worked out yet how we want to deal with feature additions on FCamera - we've been intending it more as a sample application developers can use as a base to build their own applications from, instead of it becoming a catch-all application for all camera functions.

But there's clearly interest in just improving FCamera itself, and we're trying to sort out how to balance that against keeping FCamera simple enough that it could be easily used as the basis of other camera applications.

So, please take a look at FCamera and our API, and see if you can implement your time lapse work with the FCam API - we'd be quite happy if you just wrote your own app using our API, or reused the FCamera code to do so.

That's why we wrote it in the first place, to allow other developers and researchers write new interesting camera applications.

aaaand we have a fcamera with timer and timelapse photography included!

I just extended fcamera directly to include these functions. You can use the timer with 1 shot to behave just like a normal timer or increase the number of shots to make timelapse sequences. The controls can be improved but I just wanted to share this with all of you. Here are some screenshots:








The cool thing about this is that now you can use the other functions of fcamera in a timelapse context. For example, you can have timelapse of bursts of shots or even HDR photos! The only problem with HDR timelapses is that fcamera automatically chooses how many photos to take at each HDR shot (based on the presence of shadows or bright spots) and so each shot of the timelapse may end up with a different number of shots. This will make it hard to merge the right photos into a single HDR shot.

Anyway, I'm going to see if the guys at fcam (which did an awesome job) want to include my changes in fcamera. If not, I can just package this for everyone and call it something different (I'm calling it fcameraTL)

Tiago