Re: [Tracker] Video thumbnailing

[Jens Georg <jensg openismus com>]

On Mo, 2011-10-10 at 10:52 +0100, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> 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.

This is not about media-art only. But you're right, grilo is supposed to
do this; but then you have to query two stores again...