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

[Glyn Davies]

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
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Glyn Davies