Re: gio enhancement.

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:14:08AM +0200, Bruggemann Eddie wrote:
> Or For multimedia files (Video, Music, Image) providing a way to access the
> meta-data:
>
> in a type like this:
>
> GMediaFileInfo
>
> ---
>
> Else because Gtk has a library for the font (pango) for drawing (cairo) for
> images (gdk_pixbuf), and so on...
>
> Why not get a library for playing sounds ?

GStreamer [1] can be used for media files metadata and for playing
sounds. For image metadata, I don't know, but you can look at the code
of eog [2] for example to see how it retrieves the image properties.

[1] https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome

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Sébastien