Re: Audio/Video file preview using gstreamer

["John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 00:12 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2007, 22:18 +0200 schrieb Erik Andrén:
> > > I'm interested in playing with it and investigate the possibilites of
> > > a
> > > implementing a video preview-feature.
> >
> > Thanks for your interest!
> >
> > There are discussions on the bugzilla and maybe on the list (archived)
> > where general metadata preview is discussed in a key-value based
> > fashion, in a tooltip. It would also display image and video metadata,
> > and a large preview for them.
> >
> > At the moment I can't point out any URIs, though.
> >
> > IIRC Alex didn't really like the concept, we should first sort out
> > whether this has any chance of being integrated into Nautilus.
>
> Yes. Tooltips suck. They keep getting in your way when you don't want
> them. However, something like the metadata tiles by Neil Patel[1] seems
> like a good approach. In fact, we discussed possible code design
> approaches for a generalization of this. Nothing has came out of it yet
> though.
>
> Various plugins etc could generate metadata for display in it, and the
> preview part could have a button to preview video or audio. (Of course,
> I still think its a bad idea to run gstreamer in the nautilus process,
> but that is easy to fix with some fork() and window cross-process
> sharing action.)

I also spent some time integrating tagging into nautilus, using
tracker as a backend. However following the monumentally huge flamewar
on ddl after tracker was proposed for inclusion last cycle, I stopped
work on it.

With heavy refactoring going on in nautilus atm I hope to revist my
work, and neils at a later date. Ideally with
1) Tracker and/or Xesam getting into GNOME
2) Xesam supporting tags

John

>
> [1] http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2007/02/nautilus-love.html
>
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