[Nepomuk] Bangarang player media library

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

В сообщении от Среда 03 февраля 2010 01:08:34 автор Jamboarder написал:
> > From: Evgeny Egorochkin
> >
> >
> > So in theory, libstreamanalyzer can be the best, most detailed, precise
> > and semantically-aware data extractor but in practice someone needs to
> > write the code :)
> > ...
> > I have a Xine-based fallback analyzer here right now and it even works. I
> > need to test it and polish a bit. I hope this will motivate you guys to
> > finally get rid of duplicate file indexing services :)
> 
> Count me in as motivated. :-)

Good :)

> As long as it's not too difficult to write the plugins. I'm definitely not
>  a file format junkie since I just use whatever existing/available libs can
>  provide.  But if it takes a little extra work to extend the file indexer
>  capabilities at install time, then I'm down to help out by working on
>  plugins for Bangarang 2.0 cycle.  Till then I'll address the potential
>  duplication of data in the nepomuk store as a bugfix by giving Strigi an
>  opportunity to index any opened file before Bangarang does.

I don't think you'll have to write any plugins as much as help me test them, 
figure out what needs improvement etc

> peace and much respect,
> Andrew Lake
> 
> P.S. Just a minor note that the duplication of functionality in this case
>  is incidental since Bangarang, like any media player, will still need to
>  be able to read metadata directly from files

But if you can instruct the file indexing service to do this, why do you even 
need this?

>  and will still need to be
>  able to write directly to the nepomuk datastore for the in-context and
>  non-extractable use cases.

Not surprising :)

>  I'll just need to add a branch the
>  nepomukwriter code path to call the file indexer, hopefully extended via
>  plugins, for technically extractable data.

-- 
Evgeny