Re: [Tracker] tracker-extract-xine + tracker-extract-gstreamer + cleanups

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Edward Duffy wrote:
> > g_spawn_sync returns FALSE if we could not execute totem, mplayer or
> > xine so it would be good to try them in that order until one of them
> > returns TRUE.
>
> That's not necassary.. the loop that iterates over the "extractors"
> array (tracker-extract:176) will keep going if an extractor does not
> return any metadata.  So, if mplayer is not there, it'll try totem,
> etc.

yeah I know but what if the video file has no metadata?

Should we still iterate or stop when we know there's none?

searching for video metadata can be slow if file is really big (1GB+) so 
would be nice to avoid this.

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