some newbie development questions

[fetchinson]

Hi folks, I posted this to the mailing list ( http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/griffith-devel/2010-October/000051.html ) a few minutes ago but noticed that the list is almost dead

So I'll reproduce it below:

I just installed svn trunk and have to say I'm very pleased with griffith!
Thanks a lot to all who has worked on this great application!

Since documentation is quite scarce (non-existent ) I'd like to ask
a couple of questions here:

1.

I have hundreds of movied on both my local file system and on an
external hard drive. My original intention was using griffith for
cataloguing these films but couldn't find a way of automatically
importing all films at once. The format for each avi file is similar
to this:

scorsese-1990-goodfellas.avi

i.e. it is director-date-title.avi and if the title has spaces in it,
it is replaced by an underscore as in

leigh-1996-secrets_and_lies.avi

so the ideal thing would be if I could feed griffith the directory
where these are stored and it would walk the entire directory
structure recursively and add all films. I'm guessing I need to write
some sort of a plugin for this.

Can you provide some pointers where I need to look in the source for this?

2.

When I launch griffith with the --debug option I see tons of
deprecation warnings. Are there plans to fix these? Should patches be
submitted?

3.

Is there any support for storing information about subtitle files?

Well, that's about it for now

Cheers,
Daniel

[mike]

I just installed svn trunk and have to say I'm very pleased with griffith!
Thanks a lot to all who has worked on this great application!

Thanks!

1.

You can write your own import plugin if you like. But I think it would be easier to write some kind of shell/msdos script which generates a CSV file for import. You can write such a little tool in every programming language you know.
Ask me if you need more details.

2.

Yes, there are plans to fix them. Patches are welcome. But the main thing is that we have to change the minimum versions of the dependencies (f.e. gtk and PyGTK. it's not a problem but it has to be done.)

3.

I'm not sure what you mean. Please describe it a little bit more in detail.

[fetchinson]

In the meantime Piotr actually replied to my post to the mailing list and he says a new version of griffith will be out soon on gitorious. I guess I'll wait until this rewrite is done and write an import plugin for it.