Private Cloud Media Server

Related Projects

• MediaTomb
• MythTV
• XBMC
• Boxee

Protocols

• Zeroconf / Avahi / Bonjour
  • mDNS / DNS-SD
  • PostgreSQL support
• UPnP UPnP AV Media Server
  • XML, SOAP... Gag me...
  • no auth
  • incomplete spec
  • NAT Traversal (huge win)

Audio

iTunes

• nTunes
  • control iTunes
• ???
  • read ratings and such?

AtomicParsley:

• Pros
  • bitbucket
  • FAST (0.25 seconds per file)
  • C

TagLib

• Faster than libid3?
• Unicode
• High-level (con)

General Indexing

• http://www.tuxradar.com/content/best-linux-desktop-search-tools
• http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
• http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/
• http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/
• http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xesam
• http://strigi.sourceforge.net/
• Google Desktop
• Spotlight

Documents

PDF / OCR

• http://xplus3.net/2009/03/31/ocr-with-ocropus-and-tesseract/

• OCRopus - also by Google

• TesseractOCR - by Google... kinda...

  • gImageReader

• pdftotext (poppler)

• scan2pdf

• http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ - makes mention of several OCRs

• WatchOCR

• http://amanzi.blogspot.com/2008/07/linux-open-source-ocr-batch-processing.html

PDFBox

• Cons
  • Java
  • Incomplete

libjpeg:

• Pros
  • Fast
  • C

hachoir:

• Pros
  • python
• Cons
  • slow (3 seconds per file)
  • incomplete

Metadata Extraction Tool:

• Pros

  • commandline interface
  • handles various formats

• Cons

  • Java
  • XML

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