Re: [Tracker] Release this weekend and general update

[Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk>]

Jedy Wang wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:38 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
>   
> > > > 3. mplayer based extractor for videos and audio.
> > > >         
> > > A dependency to mplayer is not acceptable IMHO. On some distribution of
> > > linux, I wonder whether it will be shipped one day!
> > > Debian still has problem with some legal things in it...
> > >
> > > Is it possible to use GStreamer directly for instance?
> > >       
> > Some of you might have seen this, but recently a standalone totem
> > based video and audio metadata extractor was committed to totem HEAD.
> >
> > News: http://www.hadess.net/
> > Info: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361047
> > Code: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem/src/totem-video-indexer.c?view=markup
> >
> > Because totem is heading to be more gstreamer based, would a totem
> > based video/audio indexer be acceptable?
> >     
> I think it's useful. Some distributions can not use mplayer because of
> license problem.
>   
Does this make tracker depend on Totem?  Totem depends on quite a few
gnome-only packages, which is hardly ideal for a desktop-agnostic
standard.  What about taglib / id3lib?
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