Re: [Tracker] Universal audio extractor (gstreamer ?)

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 Ã 00:45 +0000, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > <MyStory>
> > This morning I was testing the amazing tracker-search-tool; When I
> > tried to search 'Thom Yorke' in the list of my audio files, I was
> > surprised not to find any result; specially because I was sure I had
> > some in my Rhythmbox Library -> the reason was the Thom Yorke's tracks
> > are in m4a format.
> > </MyStory>
> >
> > So, as I heard tracker want to be the new way of store the Rhythmbox
> > Library, I wanted to know if it was possible to create an audio
> > extractor that could supports all the files that the system supports
> > (Gstreamer) ?
>
> yes a gstreamer based extractor for audio files makes sense - if we have 
> one for video why not audio too?
>
> Maybe Laurent is familiar enough with gstreamer to do this quickly?

I can recycle my patch for GStreamer/Xine. But this time, how should I
do it?

* "audio/mpeg", "audio/x-mp3", etc. things become "audio/*" and I remove
tracker_extract_mp3() and tracker_extract_vorbis()?
* I add tracker_extract_gstreamer() and tracker_extract_xine() (or
libxine()?)
* I remove using of Totem and MPlayer? What happens if I do not find a
metadata with Gstreamer, should I try libXine, then Totem (IMHO it is
useless after GStreamer+libXine tries), then MPlayer?
* at ./configure, what flags would you be happy to see?
--enable-gstreamer and --enable-libxine?
* suggestions?


Laurent.