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

[Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr>]

Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 Ã 00:40 +0000, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> 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.

If we suppress Totem support:
- call GStreamer, nothing?
- then call Xine (it is not xine but libxine!), nothing?
- then call MPlayer...

Totem is not useful anymore since we have now a way to call directly
GStreamer or libxine. Totem is just built against one of those backends.


Laurent.