[Tapeworm] Add a config option to rename the file on capture?

[David Woods]

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
> >
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