[maemo-developers] ANN: LightMediaScanner 0.1

[From: Allan Bezerra]

Hi Barbieri,

Do you have performance tests about lms?
I not found something related on this page.

-- Allan Bezerra

On Dec 13, 2007 12:32 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> INdT just released our media scanner as LGPL: http://lms.garage.maemo.org/
>
>   Lightweight media scanner meant to be used in not-so-powerful devices,
>   like embedded systems or old machines.
>
>   Provides an optimized way to recursively scan directories, handling
>   the parser in a child process, avoiding breaks of the main process
>   when parsers break (quite common with such bad libs and tags).
>
>   Parsers are plugins in the form of shared objects, so it's easy to add
>   new without having to recompiling the scanner.
>
>   The scanner will use SQLite3 to store file-mtime association, avoiding
>   parsing files that are already up-to-date. This SQLite connection and
>   the file id within the master table 'files' are handled to plugins for
>   relationship with other tables.
>
> I wrote it to be stable and avoid crashes on the main process, that's
> why it uses two processes. This can slow things down a bit, but worth
> the stability. In future I plan to provide an "unsafe" version that
> does it all in the same process.
>
> We also provide python bindings and some parser plugins:
>  - jpeg
>  - id3lib (needs to be rewritten without dependency on this library,
> which is not that good as we wished)
>  - ogg
>  - m3u
>  - pls
>  - video-dummy (does no parse of files at all, just register based on
> known file extensions).
>
> You requested for an open source Canola, ok, we were unable to release
> everything, but at least some bits we're contributing back, expect
> more soon. :-)
>
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