Started on: 2007-05-11
last update: 2007-05-11
Summary:
New feature - ability of picture viewer to play audio attached to each image in EXIF data. Very useful for people who use the "audio note" function of their camera.
Description:
1, What is EXIF audio - the main usage of audio attached to JPEG files is "audio note" function that is present on most (actually all, I think) current digital cameras. Audio note is short (usualy up to 30 seconds) voice recording, that describes the image. Some people (me being one of them, of course) find it very useful for their holiday photos to describe what building or scenery is on the image right when they are taking the picture. When they are viewing their photos later (with something else than MP), they are able to know what is on the image by listening to the audio note.
2, What should it do - play audio record attached in EXIF data. The configuration options should include at least:
- do not play audio at all
- play audio when a shortcut key is pressed / an icon is clicked
- play audio automatically when photo is displayed
- play audio after specified amount of time (e.g. 10 seconds, configurable)
- optinaly display an icon that the audio track is present in image
3, How to do it - I am quite new to MP so I'm not familiar with the plugin model, but I guess that it is possible to create a plugin which would do this, isn't it? The main problem would be probably playing the audio from the MP part that currently doesn't have any audio output - it has to stop currently played music and so on. If somebody explains the main steps that have to be done to get hooked on image displaying in picture viewer and to control MP audio output and so on, I would try to create such plugin. But I would also welcome anybody who would like to create it by himself.
last update: 2007-05-11
Summary:
New feature - ability of picture viewer to play audio attached to each image in EXIF data. Very useful for people who use the "audio note" function of their camera.
Description:
1, What is EXIF audio - the main usage of audio attached to JPEG files is "audio note" function that is present on most (actually all, I think) current digital cameras. Audio note is short (usualy up to 30 seconds) voice recording, that describes the image. Some people (me being one of them, of course) find it very useful for their holiday photos to describe what building or scenery is on the image right when they are taking the picture. When they are viewing their photos later (with something else than MP), they are able to know what is on the image by listening to the audio note.
2, What should it do - play audio record attached in EXIF data. The configuration options should include at least:
- do not play audio at all
- play audio when a shortcut key is pressed / an icon is clicked
- play audio automatically when photo is displayed
- play audio after specified amount of time (e.g. 10 seconds, configurable)
- optinaly display an icon that the audio track is present in image
3, How to do it - I am quite new to MP so I'm not familiar with the plugin model, but I guess that it is possible to create a plugin which would do this, isn't it? The main problem would be probably playing the audio from the MP part that currently doesn't have any audio output - it has to stop currently played music and so on. If somebody explains the main steps that have to be done to get hooked on image displaying in picture viewer and to control MP audio output and so on, I would try to create such plugin. But I would also welcome anybody who would like to create it by himself.