Media scanner with JSON

General
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Hi,
Is Media scanner support output in json format ?

and I wanna know one thing that as we can get CLS,TLS and thumbnails information direct from server what is the main purpose of Media scanner ?

Thanks,

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They made it a seperate proc to not disturb the main proc with auxillary tasks like keeping track off the file system en generating thumbnails. In older version’s you sometimes see performance issue’s when for instance thumbnails were being made.

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So in future they will remove these task from sever completely ?

And what about JSON ?

4

What Maurice says is correct. Additionally, when it was built into the server it was harder to maintain and could cause some stability problems.

As for the future, there are currently no plans to remove or change that part of the protocol. But I would like to see json support in the scanner.

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This fork of media-scanner has an http endpoint for json if that works for you: GitHub - nrkno/sofie-casparcg-media-scanner: Sofie: The Modern TV News Studio Automation System (A service used with CasparCG Server software for scanning media located on the server. Queried with query and thumbnail commands through CasparCG Server using AMCP.)

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Ok … means with server amcp we will get TLS CLS thumbnails information but we should shift our project to scanner

Thanks for this and Yes it is great with lots of information about Media

I think we can also use scanner as a warning for bad/improper media encoded file
For example :
DV Pal standard is 25fps
But media file is encoded with 30fps so scanner show that file with warning status etc ?

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As I understands it Scanner does provide the data for these commands.