On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:47 -0500, Rick Scott wrote: > transcode to a supported format and copy to the correct folder with > usb-storage is all that is needed.
HAL has neat infrastructure to handle this automatically for USB storage devices that can act as audio players; all you need to do is add appropriate entries to /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players.fdi (or create a new .fdi file, all the ones present in that directory are read. You can figure out the format just by looking at it, it's pretty simple). Once appropriate entries are in there - specifying what audio formats the device supports, and what directory the files should be stored in - any compliant application will automatically see the device as a player and let you transfer files to it, handling all the transcoding and correct location malarkey itself. It's a really cool system. Compliant players include Rhythmbox and Banshee and, I think, Amarok. With Rhythmbox you just plug the device in, it shows up in the left sidebar, and you drag and drop songs to it. Gstreamer will handle all the transcoding as long as appropriate gstreamer plugins are installed. Perhaps we should write up a .fdi file and ship it with Barry for now, and submit it to upstream HAL for inclusion in the 10-usb-music-players.fdi file? AFAIK, unfortunately, this isn't done for video yet. Of course, the fact that there's no app up to the task of drag-and-dropping a video file and handling all the necessary transcoding doesn't help :) It's a lot more complex than audio. -- adamw http://www.happyassassin.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
