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From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:19:19
Message-Id: B5082B0E-04A8-4FD3-ABF4-8EA896E93E02@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Video database software by Dale
1 > On 2019-01-28, at 17:54, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar. I been googling for
4 > others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they won't
5 > do one thing I'd like to see. I'd also like to be able to point it to a
6 > directory and let it build the database on its own. Adding them one at
7 > a time manually just isn't feasible at all.
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9 Seems like you could import via command line? http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/execution
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11 You can build the database you need locally with something like exiftool or MediaInfo, or even ffmpeg https://stackoverflow.com/a/8191228/374110 . I highly doubt anyone with serious collections is building their database one item at a time.
12 >
13 > Does anyone know of a software package that will sort a lot of videos by
14 > resolution as well as track other things as well? It could be that what
15 > I'd like to have doesn't exist at all. Then again, maybe I just haven't
16 > found it yet. ;-)
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18 The closest thing I can think of is Kodi since it's scanner will retrieve all this information and store it in a straightforward database format. You can choose SQLite or MySQL (of course MySQL is definitely the better choice for larger collections). The downside is the scanner is very slow, especially over a network (and not optimised). The only viewer for this data (at the time being) is Kodi itself.
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21 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>