Emacs, movies and SQLite

Hey, it’s the… *counts on fingers*… 22nd anniversary of me using Emacs to watch TV and movies! And in the start, it was a snappy, focused package that just listed directory contents and let me play the files… but then it grew to take care of resuming where I left off, and fixing the frame rate of the TV to fit the video file, and lately it’s also automatically choosing the correct subtitles and audio track. This means that it’s now calling mediainfo before playing the file to get all that data. And since it’s accessing the files over nfs, and mediainfo apparently has to load the entire file (or large parts) to cough up that data, things have gotten slower: Look at that! It’s horrible! I have to wait, er, two seconds before I can watch Saturday Night Live?! How can anybody live like this? Now, sensible video player interfaces compute all this stuff when they incorporate a file. But I didn’t want to do that, because just having some directories of random files that I can move around…