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[Jason Gerard DeRose <jderose@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AJ,

Was wondering how this sounds as far as a general plan for making metadata
extraction and thumbnail generation plugable and open to 3rd-party software:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/dmedia/+bug/865020

You think that would work for the use cases you have in mind?  Not the
Nautilus integration bit... just general extraction worker approach.

Cheers,
Jason

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:52 PM, AJ Ashton <aj.ashton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been following Novacut development with great interest and it
> seems that DMedia could be an excellent solution not just for video
> but for other types of media as well.
>
> I'm thinking about two specific use cases that I work with a lot -
> digital photography (raw files), and geospatial raster data (eg
> satellite/aerial imagery & digital elevation data). Like video, these
> are the kinds of files that take up a lot of disk space and that
> professionals would want to ensure multiple known good copies of
> across physical locations. They are also the kinds of files that
> benefit from a local metadata/thumbnail cache whether or not the full
> file is locally stored.
>
> I realize that HD video is the current project focus, and I know from
> experience the success that can come from focusing early development
> on a single narrow use case. So I'm not suggesting a change in
> priorities at all, just curious if thought has been given to this sort
> of thing and what any long-term ideas/intentions for a more generic
> media library might be.
>
> For digital photography the workflow might be very similar to video,
> however for geospatial data the import process and the metadata would
> likely need a bit of a different approach. Is a pluggable system
> allowing for different types of data and different metadata
> requirements something you could see for DMedia down the line?
>
> Anyway, fantastic work so far. Thanks.
>
> AJ Ashton
>
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