Re: [Tracker] Release this weekend and general update

[Jedy Wang <Jedy Wang Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:08 -0400, Edward Duffy wrote: 
> 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.

So do you mean tracker has support video extractor and if we do not have
mplayer we can use that? I thought mplayer is the only choice for us
before.

Regards,

Jedy Wang 
> 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?
> > > > John
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