[vlc-devel] Metadata overflow

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Now Playing is I think deprecated. To investigate.

Description should be renamed to comment probably.

Setting is specific to some audio codec it seems. To investigate.

Pierre.

On 20 août 07, at 15:51, Rafaël Carré wrote:

> Ok, i'll clarify:
>
> The problem is that some metadata is useless in the interfaces, and is
> unclear if it has to be displayed or not.
>
> I think we should comment the types to better understanding.
>
> I personnaly have no idea of what NowPlaying & Setting are.
> And Description and URL could be clarified more.
>
>
> Le lundi 20 août 2007 à 04:46 +0200, Pierre d'Herbemont a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't see why having much types is a problem. it makes easier to
>> track what are the possible known values.
>>
>> I would tend to like to go for everything in the dictionary, while
>> keeping the vlc_meta_t around but having it as a string. That would
>> be really nice in the API Side.
>>
>> My only concern would be the fact that we (I) am not sure of the
>> vlc_dictionary_t performance, and especially its hash function.
>> Though in theory, in the best cases we are in O(1) in all operations
>> (adding, getting).
>>
>> But existing solution is definitely faster than the hash table in all
>> cases. Yet some benchmark would be nice.
>>
>> On 20 août 07, at 04:29, Rafaël Carré wrote:
>>
>>>     Title
>>>     Artist
>>>     Genre
>>>     *Copyright
>>>     Album
>>>     TrackNumber
>>>     *Description
>>>     *Rating (implementing a rating system would be a good idea, but
>>> somehow difficult)
>>>     Date
>>>     *Setting
>>>     URL
>>>     Language
>>>     *NowPlaying (maybe useful in interfaces)
>>
>> This one is used a lot, but should be deleted I think.
>>
>>>     *Publisher
>>>     *EncodedBy
>>>     ArtworkURL
>>>     *TrackID (could be used in album art downloading, but atm other
>>> methods are used)
>>
>>
>> Pierre.
>>
>>
>>
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