[Pianod] Status, input requested

[Perette Barella]

Hi all,

The filesystem indexing has an issue where it’s sensitive to variations in artist name, including capitalization.  This causes albums which are not compilations, to be considered compilations.  A test fix is in 225c.  After installing the update, enable the filesystem source, then
	WITH SOURCE ID <whatever> FILESYSTEM RESCAN FRESH
This retains playlists.  If anyone runs into troubles with it, let me know.

As far as Bruce’s issues with libav: reviewing libav code, it appears the way timeouts are requested in the API has changed.  Although I believe I can see how to do it for TCP, it’s unclear how to do timeouts via HTTP.  I’ve asked a question on the libav-api mailing list, and am waiting to hear back.

While I’m sure the libav team had the best of intentions in splitting from ffmpeg, I find ffmpeg’s API documentation is better, their Doxygen is easier, and there seem to be more ffmpeg examples to study and work from.  The almost-but-not-quite compatible APIs situation is hard to deal with.  If they stay similar, the subtleties are a point of irritation and trouble; if they diverge, sharing the codebase and putting in a few #ifdefs becomes less feasible.

I’m therefore looking into a replacement with the thought of dropping future support for libav.  I would retain ffmpeg.  I believe this would effect Raspberry Pis, Debian/Ubuntu distributions, and probably some other distributions.

I’m looking at gstreamer as a new option.  It’s popular, and the developer documentation looks very well done.  Does anyone have any experience with it?  Any alternate suggestions I should check out?  (Something in native C++ or with a C++ interface would certainly grab my interest.)

If the options went from AVFoundation, ffmpeg & libav to AVFoundation, ffmpeg, and gstreamer would I be leaving anyone out in the cold?

Perette