Re: f-spot future

[Steve Herber <herber thing com>]

For videos I would be happy if f-spot would show a thumbnail of the first
frame of video files and then let me add tags and spawn an external
program to view the video file.

Thanks,

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Mary Strimel wrote:

> Another vote for videos.  It is the one thing I've ever wanted in
> f-spot that wasn't there (yet)!  No pressure though :)
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Arun Persaud <apersaud lbl gov> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > As for a roadmap, I don't have anything concrete, but some of the
> > > > things that I'd like to do is update to gtk#3 which might be getting a
> > > > release (probably beta) in the next few weeks.  Also, shana has been
> > > > doing some great work on a binding tool.  Once that's finished I'm
> > > > hoping that we'll have regularly updated gnome libraries, including
> > > > the gstreamer-1.0 stuff.  If that's in I'd like to explore other
> > > > multimedia features.
> > >
> > > Would this include the ability to handle movies in the same way as
> > > photos are handled? This is the number one feature I'm missing in f-spot.
> > >
> > > I tried a few other programs recently and didn't find one that handles
> > > tagging and searching as well as f-spot does, so I would really like to
> > > keep using f-spot...
> > >
> > > Looking forward to the next release.
> > >
> > > Arun
> >
> > I've heard a few people mention that they'd like to handle videos in
> > f-spot.  This is something I'd definitely like to look into and
> > imagine that gstreamer bindings would make this much much easier.  We
> > are also using some of banshee's code, so it might be possible to grab
> > some of the code they are using for playing videos.
> >
> > However, I'm definitely not promising anything right now :)
> >
> > - Stephen
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