Fwd: I want Amarok for video!

[sam]

Lots of people have suggested that Amarok should play video. As I understand 
it, the developers decided to add very basic video support for Amarok 2.0, 
but nothing fancy.

I'm not sure I like the way things are heading though. I don't see why Amarok 
needs to be a universal media player. In fact, I think Amarok is bordering on 
becoming a little too heavy.

I do agree that there should be an application that can index video files. It 
would be really useful with tags for videos, similar to the ID tags that 
music tracks have. And I've always thought that video files should have an 
internal index of what different time intervals contain. That way, the 
location bar in a video player could be completely redefined, and one could 
automatically skip credits or intros in tv shows for example.

BUT that is NOT a job for Amarok. Video indexing and all that stuff should be 
done by a separate, dedicated application. I want Amarok for music. I want it 
to be as fast, light, and easy to manage as possible. Music and video are two 
completely different media.

-Sam

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 01.07.49 Mark Kretschmann wrote: