Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/04/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 21:43 +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> > Looking inside a file to determine a mime type is just another hack.
> > The only correct way to do it is to attach meta-data to each file
> > (using extended attributes, for example). However this would mean
> > quite a radical change of how files are created, modified etc.
>
> I think meta data should be in the file, not a separate resource (and
> that means *IN* the file, not seeming like its in the file because the
> filing system is amalgamating its meta data with the file contents, on
> the fly).  It gives you easy tranmission of the file.  And if the meta
> data is done sensibly, quick assessment of what the file is.
>

Adobe is developing XMP specifically for that purpose.

Dotan Cohen

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