[mythtv] [PATCH] mythgallery: retrieve and show captions

[Kevin Kuphal]

Glyn Davies wrote:

>I hope you don't mind me adding my 2 cents here.
>
>I generate my photo albums using a simple script from
>marginalhacks.com called album
>(http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/). I'm very happy with it, and
>it seems quite popular (search for the word "album" on google, it's
>the first hit).
>
>I've just been making a few tweaks to mythgallery to support it (for
>my own use really, but I'd be very happy to share the patch if there's
>any interest). Currently, my changes are trivial, being limited to not
>much more than suppressing the album-specific thumbnail directories
>etc. from the thumbnail view. It's been tackled in similar way to the
>existing support for gallery.sourceforge.net.
>
>There I was, wondering how much effort it'd be to pick up albums
>"captions.txt" file and do something useful with it, and I come across
>this mailling list thread. (I'm patching 0.18.1, so until this thread,
>I've been unaware of any specific captions support.) On reading
>Herman's initial mail, it sounded like the perfect answer to my
>problem.
>
>Though being able to retrieve captions from EXIF data would be very
>useful to many, I have to say that if mythgallery provided the ability
>to add such a caption-retrieving script, it'd make it really easy to
>pull the captions out of album.
>"album" has a few methods to specify image captions, the primary
>method being the captions.txt file I refer to above. Though of course,
>it'd be possible to write some kind of script that parsed my photo
>directories, reading the captions from text files, and inserting into
>EXIF images, personally that route wouldn't appeal to me. I like the
>way album manages it's captions, and judging by it's popularity, many
>others seem to agree.
>
>So I guess I just wanted to suggest that while "built in" support for
>EXIF captions would be a great feature, allowing for non-EXIF
>alternatives might be more popular than it first appears. (And of
>course, "built in" support for marginalhacks album would make my day!)
>
>As I say, just my 2 cents. :-)
>
>Cheers,
>Glyn
>  
>
Just another 2 cents.  Seeing that your Album software is Perl and that 
Perl has EXIF support in a number of ways, it seems it would be a better 
use of everyone's time that you extend your prefered software to use the 
"standard" EXIF instead of a proprietary captions.txt and someone do the 
same for Myth and they will then be integrated as you desire plus it 
integrates with every other album software known to man that supports 
EXIF as well.

Kevin