[vlc-devel] Project: Video Barcodes for VLC

[Francois Cartegnie]

Le 10/02/2013 12:41, Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> Le dimanche 10 février 2013 12:05:09, vianney boyer a écrit :
>> As an alternative, it may be possible to insert thumbnails (from keyframes)
>> in the timeline?
> 
> It's pretty much the same thing as bar codes. The only difference is that the 
> aspect ratio is preserved. The technical difficulties are the same.
> 
> I know some online players do that. But I believe the pictures are precomputed 
> offline on the servers. To be honest, I don't think it's very realistic to 
> generate the barcodes within the media player.

Youtube post-computes it after upload (I guess it begins with an
half-interval search for few frames as the same process creates
thumbnails which are required asap).

Having thumbnails or barcode shouldn't be a problem if it could be
embedded into the file. (everything is built at transcode time, and then
shared with the file).

We also already fetch art and metadata from remote servers. Being able
to share timelines/thumnails strips with a mb like server would be nice.


Francois