I just figure out how to make the sliders actual work, it all had to be done in glade and the answer came after thirty minutes of google searches.

http://tadeboro.blogspot.com/2009/09/glade3-tutorial-4-gtktreeview-data.html

I finally found this site, which told me to set the page_size = 0.00, after I did that and opened TimeLapse again, the sliders worked.

Worked on the slider bars under the quality tab today.
Making them functional and adding actual values to them.

For Video Quality, there will be six value:

Value 1 = 200 x 150
Value 2 = 256 x 192
Value 3 = 320 x 240
Value 4 = 400 x 300
Value 5 = 512 x 384
Value 6 = 640 x 480

Because the def image was not creating a snapshot, I wondered if maybe it was because of the Video function which was maybe conflicting with image, because we never set an order for the program. This means that it was trying to take a snapshot and record video at the same time. So you can see where this might have cause problems. We ended up having the computer take a picture first then record video and sound. So we changed the order in which they ran, making image run first then video and audio at the same time.

This involved making the image button function, so that when data was collected and image was taken and not just a video and sound.

def image(self):
self.image_path = "/tmp/tmp" + str(time.time())

IMAGE_GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'ffmpegcolorspace', 'pngenc']
pipe = IMAGE_GST_PIPE + ['filesink location=%s' % (self.image_path)]
self.bus = self.pipe.get_bus()
self.pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)
self.bus.poll(gst.MESSAGE_EOS, -1)

self.file_dsobject = datastore.create()
self.file_dsobject.metadata['title'] = "Image Sample"
self.file_dsobject.metadata['mime_type'] = 'image/png'
self.file_dsobject.set_file_path(self.image_path)
datastore.write(self.file_dsobject)
self.file_dsobject.destroy()

Peter ended up changing the entire interface but had not had time to actually make all of the buttons and objects functional. This meant I spent most of today fixing this problem when I was not working on the video issue.

Today

After finally getting internet after being on vacation for two weeks, I find myself scrambling to catch up on all the new emails and updates going around. I looked at the new code and immediately saw a problem with the video recordings. All of the video recordings came back very pixelated.

To fix this problem i went into cameramic.py and looked at

def video(self):
VIDEO_GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'queue', 'videorate',
'video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=15/1', 'videoscale',
'video/x-raw-yuv,width=160,height=120',
'ffmpegcolorspace', 'theoraenc', 'oggmux']
pipe = VIDEO_GST_PIPE + ["filesink location=%s" % (self.video_path)]
self.video_pipe = gst.parse_launch('!'.join(pipe))
self.video_pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

I had originally tried to up the video scale to

def video(self):
VIDEO_GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'queue', 'videorate',
'video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=15/1', 'videoscale',
'video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480',
'ffmpegcolorspace', 'theoraenc', 'oggmux']
pipe = VIDEO_GST_PIPE + ["filesink location=%s" % (self.video_path)]
self.video_pipe = gst.parse_launch('!'.join(pipe))
self.video_pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

but it ended up creating a very crisp video but it was incredibaly choppy. I spent a long time fiddling with the video scale til I came up

def video(self):
VIDEO_GST_PIPE = ['v4l2src', 'queue', 'videorate',
'video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=15/1', 'videoscale',
'video/x-raw-yuv,width=200,height=150',
'ffmpegcolorspace', 'theoraenc', 'oggmux']
pipe = VIDEO_GST_PIPE + ["filesink location=%s" % (self.video_path)]
self.video_pipe = gst.parse_launch('!'.join(pipe))
self.video_pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING)

Today

Hello All!!!

Yes I am a few weeks behind, but I am hoping that with some extra time and elbow grease, I will be able to fully update this sight.