<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/6 Christopher Blauvelt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cblauvelt@gmail.com">cblauvelt@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">best channel is the mailing lst here,<br>
#plasma and #plasma-mediacenter irc chnnels on freenode<br>
and there are a couple of people interested of getting it bck in development,<br>
i hope they will speak up in this thread, but anyways I'll get them in contact<br>
with you :)<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>I was looking at doing this as a GSoC. I've actually spent my weekend getting a development environment ready to get started. My goals for 0.1 release of the project are:<br>
- Develop a video widget that has composited controls and can handle full 1080p video well with a reasonably powered system. What reasonably powered is will have to be determined.<br> - Develop a picture viewer that can show pictures while designing for future effects.<br>
- Develop a music player that plays music. Nothing fancy . . . yet.<br> - Develop a media browser to start playing video/music or start showing pictures.<br> - Develop a UI that is based on QML and QtComponent whenever practical.<br>
<br>Notice how I'm starting with the building blocks and working my way to other, more complicated things. I think one of the big problems we had last year (with no shots being taken at anyone) was there was a lot of excitement but not enough direction and we need to start with the foundation before we can start on the ornamental roof.<br>
<br>My TZ is GMT-5 so if you want to get together on IRC #plasma-mediacenter sometime this week let me know. I might be available today but . . . it's the super bowl[1] so no promises.<br><br>Chris<br> </blockquote>
<div>Hey Chris,<br><br>My TZ is GMT+1, I will try to be on IRC late tomorrow (monday) evening around 23:00/11pm (GMT+1). My nick will be m_abs. <br>It can't be too late during the workdays.<br><br>Your building blocks looks like a reasonable starting point to me. Personally the picture viewer isn't important to me, but I can see how it's needed.<br>
<br>One thing I think would be a good idea is to talk about what other mediacenter-software do well and what they do that is not so good. I've mostly experience with XBMC, which is the system I'm using at the moment.<br>
I know most of it will come much later after the basic building blocks are in place, but it might give some directions.<br><br>-<br>Morten<br></div></div>