Tag Archives: MTP

Death to the Zen Micro

So yesterday I was quite convinced that I was going to make it down to see the Chicago Air and Water Show, hoping I could see the Thunderbirds.  Well lets just say that we got water alright.  I stood out … Continue reading

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GUADEC followup

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading

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:w

Yes, that’s a VIM :w (not some new fangled creation), as in, I’m actually writing something here! I haven’t written in three months, and haven’t committed any code in four…as I’ve been a bit distracted by a few things, notably: … Continue reading

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Banshee MTP Guide Moved

Howdy folks, The guide that used to be at http://tricky.vanstaveren.us/Projects/Open_Source/Banshee/MTP has now been moved to the Banshee wiki at http://www.banshee-project.org/Guide/DAPs/MTP.  All the subpages have been moved accordingly.  My site has all the pages set to forward to the Banshee site, … Continue reading

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libgphoto2-sharp 2.3.0 released

After an age or two of waiting, pondering over licensing issues, and doing bits of maintenance here and there, the Mono/.NET bindings for libgphoto2 have now been released! One can now play with libgphoto2 compatible devices out of a Mono … Continue reading

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MTP: it’s alive!

Last night the addition of MTP support to Banshee landed in CVS HEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s true! The days of command line interfaces for your snazzy new Creative, iRiver, etc. player are nearly over. All you have to … Continue reading

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Eat your heart out, Microsoft :)

So on Monday, Marcus over in the gphoto2 development land committed a monster patch giving MTP Metadata support to libgphoto2.  I’ve been waiting for this patch to land so that I can pipe that information thru to Banshee MTP support, … Continue reading

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Transfers in banshee with libgphoto2/MTP driver (ptp2)

So, I finally got it working over the weekend :) Marcus is a genius, and it turns out that libgphoto2 has mass-storage device detection support which just so happens to touch HAL in just the right way that it screws … Continue reading

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MTP Progress…

…or lack thereof. I’ve hit a few walls with things, and been struggling to find the energy to debug them. libgphoto2 has proven to probably be the best choice for interfacing with MTP devices, but it’s holding a few issues … Continue reading

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