From Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us Wed Nov 15 10:48:54 2006 From: Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us (Norris, Brent) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:48:54 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? Message-ID: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A6CA@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> One function that I would really like to have added is the ability to rename the file when it is saved to the local disk. I am looking at using tapeworm in a school environment and we would like teachers to be able to save videos to their local computers, but it will be much easier for them to utilize those videos if they have meaningful names. How impossible would it be to do something like that? Thank you for your great program Brent Norris From david at spurgeonwoods.com Wed Nov 15 11:10:22 2006 From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:10:22 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? In-Reply-To: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A6CA@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> Message-ID: <004001c708d8$f3caf0b0$de296880@davidwoods> Brent, It would not be that difficult, I don't think. (I'm not at home at the moment, so can't check the source code.) However, I'm not sure why it would really be necessary or even helpful. Can you articulate your use case a bit, so I can understand why the filename matters? Once you've captured a video locally, you can just use TapeWorm to select and display the video file. That way, you never need to know such details as where files are stored or what they're called. In addition, if people start working with files outside of TapeWorm, they're going to do evil things like delete them manually. That would leave the data record in TapeWorm even though the local files was no longer available. Bad idea. But my guess is that I'm thinking about a network model where teachers are selecting their video files themselves within TapeWorm, while you're probably thinking of a model where a central person (you?) captures the video files and distributes them to the teachers who never see TapeWorm on DVD. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:49 AM > To: tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > One function that I would really like to have added is the ability to > rename the file when it is saved to the local disk. I am looking at > using tapeworm in a school environment and we would like teachers to be > able to save videos to their local computers, but it will be much easier > for them to utilize those videos if they have meaningful names. > > How impossible would it be to do something like that? > > Thank you for your great program > > Brent Norris > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com > From Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us Wed Nov 15 11:16:28 2006 From: Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us (Norris, Brent) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:16:28 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? In-Reply-To: <004001c708d8$f3caf0b0$de296880@davidwoods> Message-ID: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A6DF@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> Well right now the last model is the one that is most likely, while in the end the model you are thinking of would be the one that I would like to move to. Even so though, teachers have weird use cases sometimes and they tend to want to do weird things like embed the videos in Powerpoints or something. Though perhaps that won't be what they want to do with it in the end... I really don't know. Perhaps it was a poor request. Brent -----Original Message----- From: tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com [mailto:tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com] On Behalf Of David Woods Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:10 AM To: 'Support for TapeWorm' Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? Brent, It would not be that difficult, I don't think. (I'm not at home at the moment, so can't check the source code.) However, I'm not sure why it would really be necessary or even helpful. Can you articulate your use case a bit, so I can understand why the filename matters? Once you've captured a video locally, you can just use TapeWorm to select and display the video file. That way, you never need to know such details as where files are stored or what they're called. In addition, if people start working with files outside of TapeWorm, they're going to do evil things like delete them manually. That would leave the data record in TapeWorm even though the local files was no longer available. Bad idea. But my guess is that I'm thinking about a network model where teachers are selecting their video files themselves within TapeWorm, while you're probably thinking of a model where a central person (you?) captures the video files and distributes them to the teachers who never see TapeWorm on DVD. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:49 AM > To: tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > One function that I would really like to have added is the ability to > rename the file when it is saved to the local disk. I am looking at > using tapeworm in a school environment and we would like teachers to be > able to save videos to their local computers, but it will be much easier > for them to utilize those videos if they have meaningful names. > > How impossible would it be to do something like that? > > Thank you for your great program > > Brent Norris > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co m > _______________________________________________ Tapeworm mailing list Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co m From david at spurgeonwoods.com Wed Nov 15 11:29:33 2006 From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:29:33 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? In-Reply-To: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A6DF@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> Message-ID: <004101c708db$9e7890b0$de296880@davidwoods> Brent, I'm not convinced it was a poor request. I just want to understand the use case. I can certainly see this as very useful for the person serving as the bottleneck in the process of gathering and distributing video in a large environment. Frankly, my thinking about TapeWorm is often limited by my own use case, which is small-scale private family use. So where were you thinking the new file names would come from? Do you see that as a manual process where you'd name the file as part of the capture process, or were you thinking that TapeWorm would handle that automatically, and if so, how? David > -----Original Message----- > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:16 AM > To: Support for TapeWorm > Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > Well right now the last model is the one that is most likely, while in > the end the model you are thinking of would be the one that I would like > to move to. Even so though, teachers have weird use cases sometimes and > they tend to want to do weird things like embed the videos in > Powerpoints or something. > > Though perhaps that won't be what they want to do with it in the end... > I really don't know. Perhaps it was a poor request. > > Brent > > -----Original Message----- > From: tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com > [mailto:tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com] On Behalf Of David Woods > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:10 AM > To: 'Support for TapeWorm' > Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on > capture? > > Brent, > > It would not be that difficult, I don't think. (I'm not at home at the > moment, so can't check the source code.) However, I'm not sure why it > would > really be necessary or even helpful. Can you articulate your use case a > bit, so I can understand why the filename matters? > > Once you've captured a video locally, you can just use TapeWorm to > select > and display the video file. That way, you never need to know such > details > as where files are stored or what they're called. In addition, if > people > start working with files outside of TapeWorm, they're going to do evil > things like delete them manually. That would leave the data record in > TapeWorm even though the local files was no longer available. Bad idea. > > But my guess is that I'm thinking about a network model where teachers > are > selecting their video files themselves within TapeWorm, while you're > probably thinking of a model where a central person (you?) captures the > video files and distributes them to the teachers who never see TapeWorm > on > DVD. > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:49 AM > > To: tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > > Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > > > One function that I would really like to have added is the ability to > > rename the file when it is saved to the local disk. I am looking at > > using tapeworm in a school environment and we would like teachers to > be > > able to save videos to their local computers, but it will be much > easier > > for them to utilize those videos if they have meaningful names. > > > > How impossible would it be to do something like that? > > > > Thank you for your great program > > > > Brent Norris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tapeworm mailing list > > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > > > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co > m > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co > m > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com > From Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us Wed Nov 15 12:11:09 2006 From: Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us (Norris, Brent) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:11:09 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? In-Reply-To: <004101c708db$9e7890b0$de296880@davidwoods> Message-ID: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A703@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> I was thinking similar to what Mythweb did/does. Used to when you clicked a file in Mythweb and were using Firefox, when the save as dialog came up it would have the title and then the subtitle in it. Title - Subtitle.mpg The one thing that it didn't do very good in that regard was that it didn't put anything if there wasn't a subtitle. I would think that instead it would put the date first aired if the subtitle was empty. Title - Date First Aired.mpg That should be a relatively unique identifier that would allow for sorting and cataloging. Brent -----Original Message----- From: tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com [mailto:tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com] On Behalf Of David Woods Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:30 AM To: 'Support for TapeWorm' Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? Brent, I'm not convinced it was a poor request. I just want to understand the use case. I can certainly see this as very useful for the person serving as the bottleneck in the process of gathering and distributing video in a large environment. Frankly, my thinking about TapeWorm is often limited by my own use case, which is small-scale private family use. So where were you thinking the new file names would come from? Do you see that as a manual process where you'd name the file as part of the capture process, or were you thinking that TapeWorm would handle that automatically, and if so, how? David > -----Original Message----- > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:16 AM > To: Support for TapeWorm > Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > Well right now the last model is the one that is most likely, while in > the end the model you are thinking of would be the one that I would like > to move to. Even so though, teachers have weird use cases sometimes and > they tend to want to do weird things like embed the videos in > Powerpoints or something. > > Though perhaps that won't be what they want to do with it in the end... > I really don't know. Perhaps it was a poor request. > > Brent > > -----Original Message----- > From: tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com > [mailto:tapeworm-bounces at spurgeonwoods.com] On Behalf Of David Woods > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:10 AM > To: 'Support for TapeWorm' > Subject: Re: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on > capture? > > Brent, > > It would not be that difficult, I don't think. (I'm not at home at the > moment, so can't check the source code.) However, I'm not sure why it > would > really be necessary or even helpful. Can you articulate your use case a > bit, so I can understand why the filename matters? > > Once you've captured a video locally, you can just use TapeWorm to > select > and display the video file. That way, you never need to know such > details > as where files are stored or what they're called. In addition, if > people > start working with files outside of TapeWorm, they're going to do evil > things like delete them manually. That would leave the data record in > TapeWorm even though the local files was no longer available. Bad idea. > > But my guess is that I'm thinking about a network model where teachers > are > selecting their video files themselves within TapeWorm, while you're > probably thinking of a model where a central person (you?) captures the > video files and distributes them to the teachers who never see TapeWorm > on > DVD. > > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:49 AM > > To: tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > > Subject: [Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture? > > > > One function that I would really like to have added is the ability to > > rename the file when it is saved to the local disk. I am looking at > > using tapeworm in a school environment and we would like teachers to > be > > able to save videos to their local computers, but it will be much > easier > > for them to utilize those videos if they have meaningful names. > > > > How impossible would it be to do something like that? > > > > Thank you for your great program > > > > Brent Norris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tapeworm mailing list > > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > > > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co > m > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co > m > > _______________________________________________ > Tapeworm mailing list > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com > http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co m > _______________________________________________ Tapeworm mailing list Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.co m From Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us Wed Nov 15 12:23:45 2006 From: Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us (Norris, Brent) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:23:45 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Where is tapeworm's config stored Message-ID: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A70B@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> Once I setup tapeworm the way I want it, I would like to be able to copy those settings to other people. Does it store its settings in the reg or a file somewhere? Brent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com/attachments/20061115/8cb90ecf/attachment.html From david at spurgeonwoods.com Wed Nov 15 12:38:50 2006 From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:38:50 -0600 Subject: [Tapeworm] Where is tapeworm's config stored In-Reply-To: <8CF4C375735F944BA1E5D1751FCFE96578A70B@ED151X1.edmonson.ketsds.net> Message-ID: <005101c708e5$4c4f8000$de296880@davidwoods> Brent, It stores the configuration information in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TapeWorm\TapeWorm. David -----Original Message----- From: Norris, Brent [mailto:Brent.Norris at Edmonson.kyschools.us] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:24 PM To: Support for TapeWorm Subject: [Tapeworm] Where is tapeworm's config stored Once I setup tapeworm the way I want it, I would like to be able to copy those settings to other people. Does it store its settings in the reg or a file somewhere? Brent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com/attachments/20061115/9a43290b/attachment.html