[Somehow, two of my three mails do not seem to have made it to the list even after >30 hours, so I am resending them; sorry if they appear twice eventually.]
On Donnerstag 02 Oktober 2008, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 12:18 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> >> You can not add covers to the db, they MUST be in the
> >> filesystem. Beacon supports the basic styles like folder.ext and
> >> movie.avi.ext with ext jpg or png. Besides that covers in id3
> >> tags. The thumbnailing of this images are done in beacon and the image
> >> is stored in ~/.thumbnails.
> >
> > Well, theoretically you _could_ create a buffer attribute that contains
> > the cover image.
Yes, that's what I was thinking; then, beacon would really duplicate all
necessary information. OTOH, we all know this is ugly. Filename columns +
the overlay directory are the right solution.
> Using ~/.thumnails is freedesktop.org standard so it works between
> freevo and other prjects. Except that we use epeg for faster jpeg
> thumbnailing. That is against the standard and stolen from
> enlightenment.
Yes, but as Jason already pointed out, I was not talking about thumbnails,
which are sort of "lossy duplicates". I was talking about real duplicates of
the cover images that could be used/displayed when the respective removable
media is not available.
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