2008/5/4 Mark Schonewille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What kind of files are you thinking of?
At the moment I am working on a video archive - so the files are various types of video and media. I want to associate these files with metadata as you do. And I want the ability for the user to move these fields around on their network however they want - at least within the same drive, but ideally also to another drive on the network. This is the aim / ideal. There are a few ways of getting close. I've looked at Spotlight = bit want something that works cross platform. I like the way EyeTV uses bundles to enclose the metadata - in fact I am thinking of using that format as my media storage format. For normal video / quicktime files I have been storing the metadata in an XML file / database based for now on the file name. That's the bit I want to change to make it independent of file name / path so users can move / rename the files. So I have been experimenting with types of "finger print" - the sort of thing I guess Apple DVD player uses to store BookMarks for DVDs.... which may work out (I wish I could find out how Apple does this - its a call to a framework but what exactly does the framework do with a DVD?) End of story is - I was thinking of using aliases in the mix - they can be used to link the metadata file to the video file. I'm not sure. All I know is that I am going to be moving and renaming these media files all over the place the next few weeks and i want to keep the metadata associated with them - and I don't want to be forced to use a home rolled GUI to do all the reorganising, I also bet Spotlight won't work with the NAS. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
