[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

[Patrick Mauritz]

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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:39:30PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> OS shells are already slow enough without having to parse the container of
> every single file all the time. Please don't advocate making them slower.
let's see:
- win32 with ntfs: shell extension (some dll), ntfs streams
- mac os: resource forks, no idea if you can extend the shell as 3rd party, but
I'd suspect so
- kde, gnome: extended attributes, .desktop files within directories, yet
another metadata cache (various exist already, eg. for thumbnails)
- beos: extended attributes
- other desktops: either similar mechanisms or no user friendly preview
behaviour in the first place

so, with these options your favorite shell can now provide dimensions of the
video, lyrics, information about all languages that are available in this video,
cd covers, etc etc that it can't provide with extensions - a unified extension
(how about ".ogg"?) actually helps deciding if this shell extension should kick in
or not, at least on mime-impaired systems.



patrick mauritz