Reading Annodex Clips

[Dan Meltzer]

On Sunday 25 June 2006 8:22 pm, Jason Kivlighn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has there been any thought of reading and displaying clips from
> annodexed media?  For those not familiar, Annodex files are .ogg files
> that include within the ogg container a CMML description of clips in the
> file.  Clip info include items such as title, description, start/end
> times, image link, etc.  Annodexed file are particularly useful for
> seeking in long audio files.
>
> So I've been messing around with the idea to load this clip data and at
> one point got it working.  I updated MetaBundle to include a list of
> ClipInfo objects and displayed it as subitems of the PlayListItem.
> Clicking the clip subitem would seek to the position specified by the
> clip and clip info was displayed in a tooltip.
>
> The attached patch is rough, especially in reading the clip info from
> the file, but I didn't want to put too much time into this if you guys
> aren't interested.  It's also from SVN awhile back, but it gives an idea
> of the additions it required.  The patch uses gstreamer-0.10 with the
> annodex plugin to read the data.  If there's interest in adding this
> functionality to Amarok I'll definitely put in the effort to clean this
> up and getting it working right.
>
> I've been trying to maintain my patch, but SVN moves so fast it has
> started to get frustrating :-P  I was hoping that at least an
> infrastructure to store clips as a part of a file's metadata could be
> added to Amarok.  The idea of adding clips to a file's metadata is
> generic enough that the same infrastructure for storing the clips could
> be used not just for annodexed media but anything with clips.
>
> Thoughts?  Interested?

The one thing that I'd say makes this patch "not work" is its dependancy on 
gstreamer.  Any way you can write this without using a gst plugin?
>
> Cheers,
> Jason Kivlighn