Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-28, at 17:54, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar. I been googling for >> others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they won't >> do one thing I'd like to see. I'd also like to be able to point it to a >> directory and let it build the database on its own. Adding them one at >> a time manually just isn't feasible at all. > Seems like you could import via command line? > http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/execution > > You can build the database you need locally with something like exiftool or > MediaInfo, or even ffmpeg https://stackoverflow.com/a/8191228/374110 . I > highly doubt anyone with serious collections is building their database one > item at a time. >> Does anyone know of a software package that will sort a lot of videos by >> resolution as well as track other things as well? It could be that what >> I'd like to have doesn't exist at all. Then again, maybe I just haven't >> found it yet. ;-) > The closest thing I can think of is Kodi since it's scanner will retrieve all > this information and store it in a straightforward database format. You can > choose SQLite or MySQL (of course MySQL is definitely the better choice for > larger collections). The downside is the scanner is very slow, especially > over a network (and not optimised). The only viewer for this data (at the > time being) is Kodi itself. >
Not ignoring. Just pondering this one. May take some time for me to test some stuff here. ;-) Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
