libmediascan is an evolution of the work done on the Perl modules Audio::Scan and Image::Scale: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Scan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-Scale

The basic goals of libmediascan are:

• Extend the high-quality audio metadata scanners in Audio::Scan to video and image files.
• Determine DLNA profile information during scanning by including code from libdlna.
• Generate audio, video, and image thumbnails at scan-time.
• Support OS-specific change notification methods on OSX, Linux, and Windows for background directory watching.
• Develop a comprehensive test suite.
• Deliver a standalone C library that may be useful to non-Perl projects.
• Include Perl bindings with the library, other bindings if any contributors are interested.

Longer-term plans:

• Explore asynchronous scanning using threads.

The library depends on FFmpeg to handle video files, libjpeg/libpng/libgif for image and thumbnail support, and libexif for JPEG tags.