Bug 214606

Summary: support for personal video collections
Product: [Applications] tellico Reporter: xipmix <vincent.mcintyre>
Component: generalAssignee: Robby Stephenson <robby>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: basu123ra, kmm, wettererscheinung
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description xipmix 2009-11-15 02:49:27 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
OS:                Linux

I have been looking at Tellico as a tool for managing a collection of personal videos, ie created by me with a video camera.

I could do this via a custom collection but I think this could be a useful collection type to add. I don't see any mention of such a feature in the documentation.

The kinds of things I would like to be able to do is:
 * store the video file location
 * store the file md5sum (auto-calculated)

 * gather some metadata from the video files (via a third-party tool would be fine)
   * video format
   * time stamps

 * set some tags that would help with searching the collection.
   Possibly using one of the existing tagging microformats. Perhaps youtube or flickr has a useful syntax that could be adopted.

 * extract a keyframe that would be displayed within Tellico.
   This could be difficult, perhaps third-party applications can help.
   It would be enough if Tellico could accept a 'keyframe pointer' of some kind that allows it to jump to the right point in the file. Even just accepting the location of an image file to use as the keyframe would be good.
Comment 1 xipmix 2009-11-15 02:51:03 UTC 
PS I had to lie about the kde version to get past the whiny "you're on an old version screen". I'm actually using 4.1.4 (Ubuntu Intrepid) and tellico 1.3.2.1-ubuntu1.
Comment 2 martinrssf@gmail.com 2010-03-17 17:31:13 UTC 
You can use Video Collection to manage home video collection in tellico 2.
There is a URL type you can add to refer to a file location.

But I concur that it would be nice to have custom plugin support to auto-populate fields, execute external programs, etc.
Comment 3 Robby Stephenson 2011-03-05 17:43:35 UTC 
*** Bug 249241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 basu123ra 2011-09-12 09:11:12 UTC 
I can confirm that there is not any URL option in the Video Collection Fields.
Comment 5 Robby Stephenson 2017-03-18 00:59:27 UTC 
A URL field can easily be added in the Fields Editor, but I recognize the request has being able to read information from a video file directly. Clicking the URL in Tellico would open whatever video player is configured to open that type of file.
Comment 6 Robby Stephenson 2022-03-03 01:37:48 UTC 
*** Bug 380815 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Robby Stephenson 2024-03-13 14:16:42 UTC 
Commit https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico/-/commit/4eb233bbaddd2bcc8f07d6c0e4a748975ac0219e added support for reading video metadata and information from NFO files. The functionality will be in Tellico 4.0.