On Monday 17 November 2008 16:02:11 Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: > This might be inspirational? What kphotoalbum appears to do, is to scan all > files below a certain path, and match against the size/md5 sum database > that it has. This is very quick - it scans my image collection of about > 18000 high resolution images in 20-30 seconds. If I should move things > around, it would be slower, of course. Again, for inspiration: If we stored > md5 sums of clips with other metadata in the project file, we could offer > the user to search (a path/tree) for a clip, if it was missing. That way, > you could move all your stuff somewhere else, open the project file, and > have kdenlive look up all the clips again. Or something.
nice idea, but calculating the hash of an entire video clip would take... hours? i tried md5 on an 8 mb file: 40s... maybe we could get the hash only of the first bytes of the file, but that sounds like a bad thing (if i then truncate the file i'll get a wrong match... and there's also the risk of collisions). i'm thinking about this, maybe it could work if we include the original file size in the hash, or something else... > Another thing KPhotoAlbum does (or at least did once) is that it allows > image collections on cdroms/moveable media that are not mounted to be > "used": that is, it is still searchable, and so on. It just appears with a > "placeholder" icon in the GUI. In Kdenlive that would amount to e.g. being > able to move clips around in the timeline, edit titles, all that kind of > stuff, without having access to the actual clips on disk at the moment. Of > course, it would not work for render, even though one could envision a > partial render of the available clips. i can already edit projects with only placeholders in kdenlive: an old project of mine includes some .westley which refers to lost files, but kdenlive isn't aware of this and doesn't remove them... i think it could be easily done rethinking the "you're file cannot be found and will be removed" dialog -- Alberto Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list Kdenlive-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
