Re: [Tracker] Release this weekend and general update

["Edward Duffy" <eduffy gmail com>]

Nope..just like the mplayer-based extractor, if its there it'll get
used, if it's not, it keeps going.  My patch does not make mplayer a
hard dependancy, and neither would this.

On 10/16/06, Erlend Davidson <E R M Davidson sms ed ac uk> 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?
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