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Starting with version 2.00, the program implements the Description API, a special
programming interface that allows developing plugins separately from the rest of
the program. Plugins handle advanced tasks in the process of scanning a media,
such as extracting and providing the program with descriptions or thumbnails that
will be stored in a catalog. Anybody with sufficient programming skills to develop
a regular DLL library, in any programming language, can extend WhereIsIt's
description and thumbnails importing capabilities by providing the program with a
new plugin. If you have a description or thumbnail source that WhereIsIt can not
use at this time, for example, a text file in a non-supported format, you can write
your own plugin that will process such files and allow WhereIsIt to automatically
import descriptions from that source.
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Main Description Plugins
(DescPlugin.zip, 204 kB)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 3.93 |
Release date: May 9th 2008 |
The "Main Description Plugins" module is the one that takes care of importing
most of supported description sources in WhereIsIt. This module is always
included in the downloadable program package, however module available here
may be newer and allows you to update description support without having to
download the entire program.
Plugin history:
Version 3.50 adds a new AVI Video Files plugin.
Version 3.55 extends the MP3/WAV Audio Files plugin with AAC support
(including ID3 tags), new configuration dialog and extended support for
ID3v2. MPEG-4 plugin now supports *.M4A and *.M4V files as well.
Version 3.60 adds the Monkey's Audio plugin with ID3v1, ID3v2 and APE
tags support, adds ID3v1 and ID3v2 support to the Ogg Vorbis plugin, and
includes renewed and optimized configuration dialogs for many existing
plugins.
Version 3.70 Added new FLAC Audio Files plugin, improved default description format for some audio plugins.
Version 3.71 Minor update to ID3v2 handling.
Version 3.73 Extended APE tag support, additional details for Adobe Illustrator plugin, improved
handling of MP3 files with first few frames corrupted.
Version 3.79 Added support for H.264 and similar video codecs to AVI and MP4 plugins, added
support for Unicode LE and BE encoded ID3V2 tags.
Version 3.83 Added support for AVI files larger than 2 GB (OpenDML AVI format), added support for
Matroska MKV files larger than 2 GB, updated known codecs names.
Version 3.84 Added new WavPack Audio Files description plugin.
Version 3.90 Added new Internet Shortcut Files description plugin, all plugins now support Unicode
file names, several plugins provide Unicode descriptions.
Version 3.92 Added two new description plugins, extracring information from MS Office OpenXML
documents, and OpenOffice.org XML documents.
Version 3.93 Rewritten "Windows Media Format Files" plugin, it now imports a lot more details and
supports files with multiple audio/video streams.
This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.
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| Description plugins: |
File_id.diz Descriptions (FILE_ID.DIZ)
32-bit Executable Files (*.EXE,*.DLL,*.VXD,*.VBX,*.OCX,*.CPL,*.SYS)
MP3, AAC and WAV Audio Files (*.WAV,*.MP3,*.MP2,*.MPA,*.AAC)
Windows Media Format Files (*.ASF,*.WMA,*.WMV,*.ASX,*.WAX,*.WVX)
HTML Files (*.HTML,*.HTM)
Archive Descriptions
Files.bbs Description Files (FILES.BBS)
Index.txt Description Files (INDEX.TXT,00INDEX.TXT,00_INDEX.TXT,...)
4DOS/NDOS Descriptions (DESCRIPT.ION)
True Type Fonts (*.TTF)
MS Office Documents (*.DOC,*.DOT,*.XLS,*.PPT,*.OBD)
Visio Documents (*.VSD,*.VST,*.VSW)
Word Perfect Documents (*.WPD)
Quattro Pro Documents (*.QPW)
Adobe Acrobat Documents (*.PDF)
Ogg Multimedia Files (*.OGG,*.OGM)
Adobe Illustrator Files (*.AI)
AutoCAD DWG File Properties (*.DWG)
MPEG-4 Audio/Video Files (*.MP4,*.M4A,*.M4V)
AVI Video Files (*.AVI,*.DIVX)
Monkey's Audio Files (*.APE,*.MAC)
Matroska Media Files (*.MKV)
FLAC Audio Files (*.FLAC)
WavPack Audio Files (*.WV,*.WVC)
NTFS File Summary Information (*.*)
Internet Shortcut Files (*.URL)
OpenOffice.org Documents (*.ODT,*.ODS,*.ODP,*.ODG,*.ODB,*.ODF,*.SXW,*.SXC,*.SXD,*.SXI,*.SXM,*.SXG)
MS Office OpenXML Documents (*.DOCX,*.DOCM,*.DOTX,*.DOTM,*.XLSX,*.PPTX)
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| Formatting plugins: |
OEM-to-ANSI charset converter
DOS graphics characters filter
Limited number of lines in description
Text optimizing filter
File name character case formatter
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CDDA Plugins
(CDDAPlugin.zip, 87 kB)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 1.24 |
Release date: October 9th 2007 |
This module handles importing details about audio CD disks. Three related plugins
are currently available, each handling a different possible source of descriptions.
All plugins are capable of setting CD's name and track file's alias names to title/
author details, as well as importing textual information such as play time and
additional details as descriptions.
Plugin history:
Version 1.24 adds FreeDB Protocol Level 6 support (Unicode).
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| Description plugins: |
Audio CD Text (*.CDA, TRACK*.WAV)
CDDB/FreeDB Audio CD Information via Internet (*.CDA)
Audio CD Tracks (*.CDA)
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Graphics Plugins
(DescGraphics.zip, 577 kB)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 4.95 |
Release date: May 9th 2008 |
"Graphics Plugins" is a supplemental plugins module for importing details
about most often used graphic file formats in use today. All description plugins
provide details such as width, height, and color depth of the picture, and most
of them (GIF, JPG, TIFF, PSD, and PNG) can extract more detailed information,
if available, as well - for example, digital camera information (EXIF), or IPTC-NAA
description fields, embedded in the image file.
Thumbnails plugins are in charge of importing actual images from graphic files and
allow WhereIsIt to store their thumbnail versions in catalog. Their secondary task
is also to provide support for the internal file viewer, for viewing images in their
full size from the media.
Plugin history:
Version 4.61 Minor adjustments to the Nikon NEF description plugin.
Version 4.62 IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changed search page on the IMDB web site.
Version 4.63 Updated support for .CR2 files in the Canon Digital Camera Raw
Files plugin, fine tuning of some other plugins.
Version 4.70 Rewritten EXIF and IPTC support, allows for extracting of any
available EXIF or IPTC tag through tag numbers. Improved data formatting for many
EXIF tags. Added support for EXIF makernote tags for several digital camera
manufacturors.
Version 4.74 Added new "Maya IFF Thumbnails" plugin, fixed processing of certain
JPEG files for EXIF extraction, adjusted error handling for 16bps RLE compressed SGI
files.
Version 4.75 Updated IMDB plugin for latest changes on IMDB web site.
Version 4.76 Adjusted EXIF rotation handling.
Version 4.77, 4.78 Updated IMDB plugin for changes in layout on IMDB web site.
Version 4.80 Rewritten Media Player plugin, with improved support for capturing video
frames as thumbnails.
Version 4.81 New PNG engine, with full transparency and interleaving support,
tweaked JPEG decoder settings for better quality.
Version 4.82 Addressed several small memory leaks, fixed low quality of thumbnails
imported from 8-bit colored PNG files, adjusted IMDB plugin for the new design of IMDB
web site.
Version 4.85 Adjusted IMDB plugin for changed search results formatting on IMDB web site.
Version 4.87 All plugins support Unicode file names and Unicode descriptions.
Version 4.88 Adjusted IMDB plugin for changed search results formatting on IMDB web site.
Version 4.90 Improved resiliance to invalid or damaged files.
Version 4.91 Improved .ICO files thumbnails plugin, new .ICO description plugin.
Version 4.92, 4.93 Adjusted IMDB plugin for changed web site layout on the OFDb web site.
Version 4.94 Added new "Office XML Document Thumbnails" plugin, extracting available
thumbnails from MS Office OpenXML and OpenOffice.org documents.
Version 4.95 IMDB plugin: Adjusted for changes on IMDB web site.
This plugins module is already included and installed with the program package. You
may only need to download it if the version published here is newer than the one you
already have.
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| Description plugins: |
Windows or OS/2 Bitmap Files (*.BMP)
CompuServe Bitmap Files (*.GIF)
JPEG Bitmap Files (*.JPG, *.JPE, *.JPEG, *.JFIF)
ZSoft Paintbrush Files (*.PCX)
TIFF Bitmap Files (*.TIF, *.TIFF)
PNG Bitmap Files (*.PNG)
Adobe Photoshop Files (*.PSD)
Nikon Digital Camera Raw Files (*.NEF)
Canon Digital Camera Raw Files (*.CRW, *.CR2)
Zeiss LSM 5 Files (*.LSM)
Icon Files (*.ICO)
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Bitmap Image Thumbnails (*.BMP, *.RLE, *.DIB)
CompuServe Image Thumbnails (*.GIF)
JPEG Image Thumbnails (*.JPG, *.JPE, *.JPEG, *.JFIF)
PNG Image Thumbnails (*.PNG)
ZSoft Paintbrush Image Thumbnails (*.PCX, *.PCC, *.SCR)
Kodak Photo-CD Image Thumbnails (*.PCD)
TIFF Image Thumbnails (*.TIF, *.TIFF, *.FAX)
Photoshop Image Thumbnails (*.PSD, *.PDD)
Targa Bitmap Thumbnails (*.TGA, *.ICB, *.VDA, *.VST)
SGI Image Thumbnails (*.SGI, *.BW, *.RGB *.RGBA)
Portable Pixel/Gray Map Image Thumbnails (*.PPM, *.PGM, *.PBM)
Autodesk Image Thumbnails (*.CEL, *.PIC)
Windows Metafile Thumbnails (*.WMF, *.EMF)
Icon Images (*.ICO)
Cursor Images (*.CUR, *.ANI)
Encapsulated PostScript Files (*.EPS)
Application Icons (*.EXE)
Disk Custom Icons (*.*)
MP3 Attached Picture Thumbnails (*.MP3)
Adobe Illustrator Thumbnails (*.AI)
Canon EOS Digital Camera Raw Files (*.CRW)
Nikon Digital Camera Thumbnails (*.NEF)
Zeiss LSM 5 Thumbnails (*.LSM)
Maya IFF Thumbnails (*.IFF)
Folder Thumbnails (FOLDER.JPG, COVER*.JPG, COVER*.GIF, *FRONT*.JPG)
Office XML Document Thumbnails (*.DOCX,*.DOCM,*.DOTX,*.DOTM,*.XLSX,*.PPTX,*.ODT,*.ODS,*.ODP,*.ODG,*.ODB,*.ODF,*.SXW,*.SXC,*.SXD,*.SXI,*.SXM,*.SXG)
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Internet Movie Database (IMDB) v1.40
Import any picture as thumbnail plugin
Capture video frame as thumbnail
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Digital Camera Raw Files Thumbnails Plugin
(DcrawPlugin.zip, 204 kB)
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| Author: Dave Coffin, Robert Galle |
Version: 1.50 |
Release date: April 26th 2008 |
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A single plugin in this module is a wrapper around Dave Coffin's
dcraw.c project,
capable of decoding raw photos from many different types of digital camera (301
digital cameras are currently supported).
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| Thumbnail plugins: |
Digital Camera Raw Files Thumbnails Plugin (*.CAM,*.CCD,*.CR2,*.CRW,*.DC2,*.DCR,*.DNG,*.ICC,*.K25,*.KDC,*.MRW,*.NEF,*.ORF,*.PEF,*.RAF,*.RAW,*.SRF,*.X3F)
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CorelDraw Plugin
(CorelPlugin.zip, 17 kB)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 0.10 |
Release date: May 20th 2001 |
This module includes a single plugin, intended for extracting and importing
embedded thumbnails in CorelDraw .CDR files. Note that some CDR files may not
have a thumbnail available.
Full Delphi source code is included.
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| Thumbnail plugins: |
CorelDRAW Graphics Thumbnails (*.CDR)
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AutoCAD Plugin
(AcadPlugin.zip, 19 kB)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 0.10 |
Release date: June 13th 2001 |
The AutoCAD plugin can extract and import embedded thumbnails in AutoCAD's
.DWG files, where available. Please note that not all DWG files include
thumbnails, and only DWG files created with AutoCAD R13 and newer support
thumbnails in the first place. Older DWG files will not cause problems,
however they are of no use to this plugin.
Full Delphi source code is included.
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| Thumbnail plugins: |
AutoCAD Graphics Thumbnails (*.DWG)
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Video Files Thumbnails Plugin
(VideoThumbPlugin.zip, 59 kB, unsupported)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 0.25 |
Release date: January 5th 2008 |
This module contains a simple plugin capable of automatically importing
user-defined frames from video files as thumbnails. Plugin uses DirectX
functionality to get basically all of the job done, pretty much the same
way as Windows Explorer does when generating thumbnails. Stability and
functionality of the plugin depends heavily on installed system
components, especially available video codecs and DirectX drivers.
Note that video files are likely to be encountered that will be causing
problems, and may consequently cause scanning to fail or take a long time.
Because of such issues, this plugin is not officially a part of WhereIsIt
and is not supported in any way. Use on your own responsibility!
Delphi source code is included.
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| Thumbnail plugins: |
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Video File Thumbnails
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Adobe Acrobat PDF Thumbnails Plugin
(PDFThumbnailPlugin.zip, 32 kB, unsupported)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 0.10 |
Release date: December 22nd 2004 |
The Adobe Acrobat PDF Thumbnails plugin creates and extracts a thumbnail of
the first available page in a given PDF document. The plugin simply calls
out Adobe Acrobat through its COM interface for the task. As plugin heavily
relies on installed third-party software, it is not officially a part of
WhereIsIt and is not supported in any way. Use on your own responsibility!
Full Delphi source code is included.
NOTE !
This plugin requires that full version of Adobe Acrobat is installed on the
system. Adobe Reader is NOT sufficient as it doesn't expose COM interface.
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| Thumbnail plugins: |
Adobe Acrobat PDF Thumbnails (*.PDF)
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Generic Text File Plugin
(GenTextPlugin.zip, 64 kB, unsupported)
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| Author: Robert Galle |
Version: 2.01 |
Release date: January 28th 2007 |
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This module includes two plugins, capable of automatically importing user-
defined text files as descriptions for either parent items (folders), or
files themselves. This feature was in high demand among WhereIsIt users,
however it is likely to produce much larger catalog files with importing
more or less irrelevant text. Because of that, this plugin is not officially
a part of WhereIsIt and is not supported in any way. Use on your own
responsibility!
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| Description plugins: |
Generic Text File Descriptions
Text File Importer
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These plugins were developed using the new Description API 2.0, introduced
in WhereIsIt 3.0. They can't be used with older versions of WhereIsIt.
Also available are plugins written
for version 2, which also work in WhereIsIt 3.
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Where Is It? 3.92 (build 505)
