Hans Meine wrote: > However, I am not sure what's missing in beacon's current database format. > Is it possible to query movies as well as removable media?
Yes. Beacon has the concept of a 'media'. Each entry is part of a media, the local harddisc is a media always mounted. As default the beacon query only works on available media, but you can also search for files on all media entries in the db. > IIRC it is possible to add additional fields to the DB schema, e.g. in order > to customize the disc labels (step 2)? Each media has a name, that's it. But for a DVD movie on the disc beacon provides additional information. > Also, my impression of kaa.beacon is that it's a indexing and caching system. > > While it should be feasible to write export/import functionality to backup > its index (or maybe even import 3rd party indexes as wished by Sylvain in the > above thread), I thought about making user-generated data more visible and > permanent by writing it to .fxd files. Would that make sense? Yes. If you have any questions about beacon check out the examples in test, ask here or ask me at #freevo on irc.gnu.org. Jason can also provide some information about the db structure. I would love to have some apps based on beacon, e.g. photo tagging. Dischi -- PCMCIA - People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
