Hans Meine wrote: > Specifically, I think that Dischi brought a different aspect into play, > thinking about a "global" (WWW-based) database. AFAICS, you were talking > about a local database of all discs that you have on disc.
Ah, local information, ok. :)
> (1) "Support for files on removable media"
> The main feature here is to store all metadata of the movie, except the movie
> data itself. The user may use Freevo's navigation and search (TODO) features
> to start the movie, and will be questioned to insert the disc "number ###,
> titled xyz". I think there has been partial support for this, and the
> caching and database features already integrated in Freevo and kaa are a good
> basis for this, but it is far from done. I think the development should be
> initially based on simple use cases and gradual addition of features, because
> in my head, it is a very complicated beast (see related ideas further down).
[...]
> I have written some basic scripts for caching the contents of discs in an
> sqlite DB and e.g. the "what movie is backed up" frontend script, but nothing
> spectacular I guess. Also, there is already kaa.beacon etc.
Right. With Freevo 2.0 you could browse all discs you have ever
inserted. Kaa.beacon will cache that data for future use; the default
is only to search on media currently in the drive, but you could also
search for all files on all discs.
But that does not help if you want to have more metadata like an fxd
provides. In that case kaa.beacon or Freevo 2.0 also lacks some
special support. E.g. it would be nice to view a list of all my DVDs
in Freevo. But it is unlikely you will insert all discs into Freevo
just to let kaa.beacon know them.
Dischi
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