Fwd: I want Amarok for video!
sam
mirshafie at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 04:59:19 UTC 2007
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:
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