[haiku-development] Re: Defining new standard attributes

  • From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:06:50 +0100

-- André Braga, on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:22:59 -0200:
> On the other hand, two of those attributes I proposed (sampling,  
> codec) are *guaranteed* to map to actual, fixed properties of digital  
> media files, *always*. There's always going to be sampling and  
> encoding, even in the RAW case! It's even trivial to retrieve them  
> automatically given some clever sniffing daemon. Which doesn't make 
> it  
> any less important to have them directly on Tracker. In fact, Adobe  
> has included asset management tools for the several later releases of  
> their suites for this very reason.

Besides the mentioned idea to have those attributes un-visible and 
toggleable for visibility in FileTypes prefs.

I'm no video buff. I know I'm ignorant in that respect and my asking is 
actual curiosity:
Would the Tracker-visible attributes really help when working with 
videos? Wouldn't the information of the sampling or interlacing only 
become interesting when inside a video editing app? Inside that app you 
have a list of clips and a file/query dialog to add more clips etc. 
Here, the hidden attributes can be displayed, sorted, queried for.
Is there really much gained by having them in Tracker?

BTW, I asked myself the same thing for the image Exif stuff like 
aperture, focal length, iso. Do many people need to see this in 
Tracker, do they sort a folder after iso settings? Or does this 
information only become interesting when actually viewing an image?
Maybe with photos it makes more sense, because of a possible 
ThumbnailView in Tracker...

Anyway, I'm not questioning your apparent better familiarity with this 
subject, I was just wondering. Besides, once all attributes are agreed 
upon and standardized, the state visibiliy flag can evolve.

Regards,
Humdinger

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