On Tue 25.02.2003 at 05:52:25PM +0100, Thomas Schueppel wrote: > > Wouldn't it be easier (not more efficient, just easier) to use mplayer > > for reading info from whatever file format? > > I do not specifically exclude that option. However mplayer > does not read avi info tags. It does not read exif, iptc > and other tags from images and it starts very slow which > makes it useless for retrieving metadata while browsing > a directory.
The slowness is actually annoying, that's true. > My framework for metadata retrieval is flexible in the way > of how they are retrieved. However I found python very > efficient in parsing binary data. IE it was much more simple > to parse Metainfo out of OGG files than to integrate > libvorbis in python. I retrieve the complete ogg metainfo > in about 30 lines of python. But pyvorbis is already integrated to the runtime, so that we can see Ogg/Vorbis titles when playing. Would your implementation replace it, then? Matthieu -- (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Université de Jyväskylä (~._.~) ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
