Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software

[Dale]

Andrew Udvare wrote:
>> On 2019-01-28, at 17:54, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar.  I been googling for
>> others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they won't
>> do one thing I'd like to see.  I'd also like to be able to point it to a
>> directory and let it build the database on its own.  Adding them one at
>> a time manually just isn't feasible at all.
> Seems like you could import via command line? http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/execution
>
> 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.
>> Does anyone know of a software package that will sort a lot of videos by
>> resolution as well as track other things as well?  It could be that what
>> I'd like to have doesn't exist at all.  Then again, maybe I just haven't
>> found it yet.  ;-)
> 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.
>


Not ignoring.  Just pondering this one.  May take some time for me to
test some stuff here.  ;-) 

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)