Hi all, It would be nice if Tracker could provide video thumbnails, in the same way that it currently extracts album art, for media centre apps etc. to use. Since we have to open video files anyway to get their tags and stream info, it makes sense to reuse that pipeline for thumbnailing - some video rips also have an obvious folder.jpg/poster.jpg image that we can identify and use instead.
I propose storing them according to the media art spec[2] (I'm sure it can be easily extended for videos), and we could also generate small thumbnails following the thumbnail spec[3] to save Nautilus the job. Does anyone have comments on whether this is a good/bad idea? I worry that tagreadbin may negate some of the benefits of thumbnailing in-process, although we will still avoid detected the file format twice and I think it generally makes sense for tracker to be doing the thumbnailing instead of every app that wants video thumbnails making their own private ones (this is what media-explorer does at the moment, for example). Thanks Sam [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec [2] https://live.gnome.org/MediaArtStorageSpec [3] https://people.freedesktop.org/~vuntz/thumbnail-spec-cache/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
