Possible GSOC ideas

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Todd,

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:13 AM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not in a position to mentor GSOC projects, but I have some ideas
> about possible project suggestions for the wiki.  I am not certain
> they are good ideas, so feel free to take them or leave them as you
> see fit.  They are all intended to fit this year's theme of "polishing
> something that already exists"
>
> 1. Support for multi artist/album/genre/etc. tags.  My understanding
> is that taglib supports this, but Amarok does not.  See:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119539

In that context: I reverted your duplicate marking, as I kept this
deliberately as two wishes, see my comment on that. How about reading
my comments before marking wishes as dupes? There is a dependecy
linking both wishes.

>
> 2. Port the contextview widgets to QML.  This is currently a big push
> in Plasma, including GSOC last year and this year, so it might be good
> to follow suit.

Agreed.

> 3. Port the mtp backend to use kio-mtp.

That is already planned.

> 4. Support ffmpeg functions with gstreamer.  A lot of distributions do
> not ship ffmpeg for legal reasons, but do ship gstreamer.  This means
> many users will never see the functionality implemented using ffmpeg.
> This project would involve implementing the same functionality ffmpeg
> provides in gstreamer, while maintaining ffmpeg support.  When built
> with both ffmpeg and gstreamer, Amarok should prefer ffmpeg.

Which makes not much sense, as Amarok doesn't USE gstreamer, it uses
Phonon and the backend that comes with, be this gstreamer or vlc.
We already depend on ffmpeg for different reasons, so I wonder what
exact functions you want to see implemented there.


Regards, Myriam
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