[vlc-devel] album art fetching

Pierre d'Herbemont pdherbemont at free.fr
Fri Feb 12 14:07:43 CET 2010


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Jakob Leben <jakob.leben at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When an input item has no album or artist information, the art is stored in
> one file per title, even if several titles use art downloaded from the same
> url, so we end up having multiple files with equal content.
>
> To prevent that redundancy, could we encode url where art is downloaded from
> into the filename stored on computer and then first search for that file
> before downloading art for further items? I am hoping that there is a way to
> form a unique filename per download url, while making sure the filename has
> no invalid characters.

sha1?

> Another question:
> Is art fetcher supposed to fetch a frame of a movie as its art? I havent
> seen that in action on my machine. Is there a special module for that?

There is no module for that yet

> Otherwise, what are locations searched when fetching art for movies?

the "meta reader" would use the embedded meta information, or the "art
fetcher"/"meta fetcher" modules may get information from the network.
Right now we have tvrage and musicbrainz. See share/lua/meta.

Pierre.



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