Re: [Tracker] Release this weekend and general update

[Jedy Wang <Jedy Wang Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 09:31 +0100, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> 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?
I did not means we should replace mplayer with Totem. I think we should
provide Totem as an option for people can not use mplayer.

If taglib/id3lib does not have any license problem, I thinks it's OK
too.

Rgdards,

Jedy Wang
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