Re: [Tracker] Video thumbnailing

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Jens Georg <jensg openismus com> wrote:
> On Di, 2011-09-13 at 12:43 +0300, Ivan Frade wrote:
>
> > > Associating folders/posters with the videos sounds like a great idea.
> >
> >  Definitely. An imagine we could take them from http://www.themoviedb.org/ !!!
>
> Not to mention all the other information available there. But that would
> also need some cunning title guessing algorithm to convert
> "this.is.a.super.movie[from][this][sorce]_foobar.avi" to something
> themoviedb understands, no?
>
> Would a moviedb miner make sense?

It seems like at this point we'd be reimplementing Grilo. Perhaps a
better idea would be to recommend applications fetch media art through
Grilo, and let Tracker only deal with locally stored images.

Sam