Re: [Muine] metadata_load

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On E, 2005-01-31 at 15:16 +0100, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
> I asked BBB (Ronald Bultje) this on IRC yesterday. There's a method in
> ElementFactory that you can query whether GStreamer supports a
> specified mimetype. Hardcoding mimetypes is one thing, but GStreamer
> has to be compiled with plugins that can actually handle those
> mimetypes. So when Muine moves to GStreamer(-sharp), it'll have to
> check for that.

Naturally. The thing we need is a "whitelist".. we only want to allow
certain formats to be loaded. I mean, we don't want wav, or avi..

> While on the Gst# topic btw, i have some stuff i'm almost ready to
> commit. It now requires Gtk# 1.9 and adds a Metadata sample (among
> other things). The sample uses the typefind and spider elements to
> print out a list of tags. Works great for oggs and mp3s (that's what
> i've tested so far). I'll and commit that sometime this week.

Awesome. :)


Jorn

PS. CC'd muine-list, as the mail was in English I assume it was meant to
get there as well. :)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeroen
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:18:16 +0200, Jon Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is because those are the only formats we support reading metadata for, and
> > loading files into muine without any metadata is fairly useless.
> > 
> > And even when we use GStreamer backend to load tags, we will still have to
> > hardcode a list of formats, because if we don't, we'll also be loading videos
> > and jpegs into muine.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jorn
> > 
> > Citeren Peter Oliver <p d oliver mavit freeserve co uk>:
> > 
> > > I notice that files are identified as being audio files by Muine itself,
> > > rather than the GStreamer or Xine backend.  Why is it done this way?  It
> > > limits Muine to just playing a short list of hard-coded file formats.
> > >
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