Re: [xine-devel] Re: recognition of CD/DVD's w/ cover art in Xine

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Jerome wrote:

>
> I did a lot of work on Disc IDs for DVDs it ain't simple. The disc id 
> from the dvdread library ain't unique enough, we found a few conflicts 
> in our 500 movie collections.
>
> The titlename on DVDs is never accurate and cannot be relied on. 
> Though there are ways by using the Table of Program and such things. 
> Also a bunch of DVDs are re-printed a little bit, they keep the same 
> UPC code but the table of program is a bit different.
>
> Finally another issue would be the cover arts ... none of the studios, 
> record companies are really willing to let them go away for free, 
> though Amazon and their webservices have a pretty flexible license and 
> would probably be the way to go. Meaning that this project would have 
> to store the disc id and the ASIN associated with this disc, which 
> would allow the project using this service to download on the client 
> side the cover art from Amazon using the ASIN (this is what is 
> authorized by Amazon)


I suggest someone takes the time to find out how the Microsoft DVD ID is 
created, and we should then use the same ID as it seems unique enough.
So, anyone out there willing to track down this code?

James