Re: [Tracker] exiftool vs gstreamer

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 22/03/10 11:26, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 10:40 +0000 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> > On 22/03/10 10:30, Alexey Fisher wrote:
> > > After a lot of testing i found that exiftool can extract more metadata
> > > than gstreamer do.
> > > Current gstreamer can't handle any files produced by digital cameras,
> > > exaftool can. It handle even ogg, mov, avi, many image formats ...
> > > But it can't handle mkv files.
> > > So my question is: what longterm solution is better, to add mkv to
> > > exiftool or to add exif to gstreamer?
> >
> > As a guess, I would say GStreamer. I don't know the state of development
> > with exiftool, but GStreamer as a framework is quite widely adopted.
>
>
> Please do not make answers like: I do not know what is it but i think it
> is bad.
> here is link to exiftool
> http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

I didn't say "I do not know what it is", I said I don't know the state 
of its development. Those are two very different things. Clearly if 
exiftool is no longer being developed or has less backing than a 
framework like GStreamer, the decision is easier to make.

From our point of view we would rather support less 3rd party 
frameworks/applications to do our extraction. We currently integrate 
with GStreamer, so that would be the reason for me suggesting it (others 
may have an opinion here).

But if you want a more concrete answer you should really be contacting 
the development teams for GStreamer and exiftool yourself and making 
your own mind up there. We will have a biased view based on our 
experiences and what we already support of course.

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Regards,
Martyn