Re: multimedia columns in list view

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:36 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:18 +0200, yelo_3 wrote:
> > I'm trying to have a look at gstreamer, but the gstreamer world is
> > quite hard, and I don't know it.
> > I just guess that I need some function that returns a GstTagList*
> > I know that gstreamer works with pipelines, so I need to build a
> > pipeline that extracts metatags...
> 
> I don't know GStreamer as well, so I can't help you here. But if you're
> willing to implement this in the Totem extension, it might be that those
> properties are already queried to GStreamer from Totem itself, so it
> might be easier to get those.
> 
> CC-ing Bastien (Totem maintainer) to this thread.

I'd be in favour of applications above storing the metadata as xattrs,
rather than having nautilus read the tags for each file every time.
Otherwise nautilus won't survive opening a lot of Music directories,
including mine :)