Re: Ideas and graph

[Steve Baker <steve stevebaker org>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 20:32, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 20:17, Steve Baker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:13, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I can imagine you'll want metadata support in gst-player at some point
> > > (not only when playing, but also in the playlist). How do you plan to do
> > > that? Getting metadata for all files using gstreamer will be insanely
> > > slow (create a pipeline for every file, play it until you receive all
> > > data, and kill it again).
> > 
> > I see metadata for playlists as beyond the scope of gst-player. People
> > who want this will be told to use rb ;)
> 
> Well, i might be wrong but I remember seeing video with metadata at a
> friend's place. If it exists, this would be essential for a movie player
> IMHO ..

Metadata for a playing file works now in gst-player, and all the
metadata comes from the elements so there is nothing but GStreamer
creating the info.