I made a module for VLC - interested?

[ASantosVal]

Hi everyone,

I'm a computer engineer and for my degree's final project I made a module for VLC. It's an Extended Metadata Manager for VLC, which is designed to process multiple file's metadata, to be able to edit them manually on a table, and to fingerprint & search them on acoustId. It's implemented with C++ & Qt (so it works on Windows and Linux). It adds no new dependencies to VLC, it's all done with C++ code and VLC's API. It's also very light, about 15kB code and 300kB on pixmaps (which could be reduced to 5kB by removing/resizing some of them).

Would VideoLAN be interested in adding the module to the official version? If so, I would make any necessary changes.

The module works quite fine, but still has some bugs/improvements I'm working on. My degree's project is finished, so I just want to contribute to the community.

It's a functionality which has been asks by some users:

• https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=100184
• https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=69532
• https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=119426

Here is my repository:
https://github.com/ASantosVal/EMM_for_VLC

And here some screenshots:

1. The module itself:
   
2. The module's menu entry:
   

Hope you like it.
Asier Santos

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

YES! Like YES, YES!

[ASantosVal]

Great news!

I would like to fix a couple of things during the following weeks, but I think it will be ready really soon. Once that is done, how should I proceed? I read that you usually ask developers to create and send patches, is that still right? Any modifications I should do?

I also read that this kind of in-tree developments are a good chance to get the code reviewed by VideoLAN. How do you usually do these reviews?

I'm really thrilled about this.
Asier Santos

[InTheWings]

We really need to find a way to disable edit/save in UI when the format does not support it

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Great news!

I would like to fix a couple of things during the following weeks, but I think it will be ready really soon. Once that is done, how should I proceed? I read that you usually ask developers to create and send patches, is that still right? Any modifications I should do?

I also read that this kind of in-tree developments are a good chance to get the code reviewed by VideoLAN. How do you usually do these reviews?

I'm really thrilled about this.
Asier Santos

Yes, send them over, when ready, and we'll review.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We really need to find a way to disable edit/save in UI when the format does not support it

Yep, that too.

[ASantosVal]

We really need to find a way to disable edit/save in UI when the format does not support it

Yep, that too.

Actually, it's supposed to filter the files while loading and only add to the table the supported ones, but I have only tested a few combinations. Have you tried it and found a bug, or was it just a suggestion?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We really need to find a way to disable edit/save in UI when the format does not support it

Yep, that too.

Actually, it's supposed to filter the files while loading and only add to the table the supported ones, but I have only tested a few combinations. Have you tried it and found a bug, or was it just a suggestion?

Just a suggestion from experience.