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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:19:32
Message-Id: 9b6be8ac-6ff8-6e25-8490-0468b10aef7e@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software by Laurence Perkins
1 Laurence Perkins wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 16:54 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >> Howdy,
4 >>
5 >> As some know, I've accumulated a lot of videos. I googled around and
6 >> found some software but not sure based on what they claim if they
7 >> will
8 >> do something I'm looking for. I installed a couple but not real big
9 >> on
10 >> how they work. One requires me to add videos, one at a time. I have
11 >> over 20,000 videos now. Some are short youtube type videos, some are
12 >> long videos. It could take me years to add them all doing it one at
13 >> a
14 >> time. Needless to say, that one didn't last long. The biggest thing
15 >> I'm looking for, software that can tell me what videos have a low
16 >> resolution. As a example, some videos I downloaded a long time ago
17 >> have
18 >> been updated to have higher resolutions. I may have one that is a
19 >> 360P,
20 >> or even less, but I may can locate a new version that is HD or even
21 >> very
22 >> HD. I'd like software that will tell me this sort of info as well as
23 >> other nifty features as well. Obviously, I'd like to start with the
24 >> lower resolution videos first.
25 >>
26 >> So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar. I been googling for
27 >> others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they
28 >> won't
29 >> do one thing I'd like to see. I'd also like to be able to point it
30 >> to a
31 >> directory and let it build the database on its own. Adding them one
32 >> at
33 >> a time manually just isn't feasible at all.
34 >>
35 >> Does anyone know of a software package that will sort a lot of videos
36 >> by
37 >> resolution as well as track other things as well? It could be that
38 >> what
39 >> I'd like to have doesn't exist at all. Then again, maybe I just
40 >> haven't
41 >> found it yet. ;-)
42 >>
43 >> Thanks.
44 >>
45 >> Dale
46 >>
47 >> :-) :-)
48 >>
49 > Digikam might be worth a try. It does some pretty advanced stuff with
50 > photos and I think at this point it can do quite a bit of the sorting
51 > and searching stuff with videos as well. I've not tried it with videos
52 > myself though so I can't make any promises.
53 >
54 > LMP
55 >
56 >
57
58
59 I have and use that for pictures.+AKA- Maybe it is something recently added
60 that I missed.+AKA- I'll look into that some more.+AKA- Since I already use it,
61 it would be nice.+AKA- I just use it to track what is downloaded and what is
62 not so I use it as a basic tool.+AKA- I used to use gtkam, I think that is
63 the name.+AKA- It got a bug of some sort so I switched to digikam several
64 years ago.+AKA-
65
66 Thanks.
67
68 Dale
69
70 :-)+AKA- :-)+AKA-