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

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> 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.

I am thinking about the debs for tracker daemon and I would not want 
them to depend on gstreamer or libxine

having totem and mplayer seems a nice way out here


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