GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789741
[PLUGIN-MOVE] Move camerabin to -good
Last modified: 2018-11-03 15:23:16 UTC
Ubuntu has since 2011 included these plugins in its -good package because Ubuntu includes -good by default but not -bad. These plugins are needed by Cheese. The Cheese library is also used by gnome-contacts, gnome-control-center, gnome-initial-setup and empathy. - camerabin - basecamerabinsrc - photography These is one more plugin that Ubuntu moves that the changelog claims is required by the camerabin plugin but I was having trouble verifying that that dependency exists: - jpegformat So I'm filing this bug to ask you to consider moving them to -good.
This depends on bug #774779
There's also an open API question for camerabin: I think it should be possible to record a video and take an image snapshot at the same time (but I think GstPhotography is the biggest blocker).
I think the whole API of camerabin/camerabinsrc is pretty bad and it doesn't work with newer cameras, see my talk at the GStremer conf (or the icamerasrc API).
That is true. However, enough people seem to find it useful enough for a range of applications with normal usb webcams and such. Is anyone planning to work on any of these components and redo all of this in a nicer way? If not, then perhaps we should just move it, and instead do a camerabin2 and photography2 interface when the time comes, if it ever comes. There is such a thing as the perfect being the enemy of the good ;) (Who would've thought that I'd ever be the one to say that, eh)
(nitpick: I believe this is already camerabin2, but sure we could do a 3 later if needed)
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