On Mo, 2011-09-12 at 18:56 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote: > 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.
Associating folders/posters with the videos sounds like a great idea. > > 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. I don't quite see why you would add them to the media-art spec _and_ the .thumbnails? Is it because you want to retain the original? > > 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). Are you aware of the (imho slightly over-engineered) thumbnailer DBus spec[1] implemented by tumbler[2]? Also, only one app needs to make the thumbnails, that's what the .thumbnails directory is for. [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec [2] Can't find the correct repository, but Philip should know. _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
