GSOC suggestions

[Martin Sandsmark]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 01:18:57PM +0100, todd rme wrote:
> 1. Implement KIO access for one or both phonon backends.  Gstreamer
> already has a vfs access backend, so adding a KIO backend should be
> possible.  I am not sure the status of vfs support in VLC.  This will
> allow playing files from remote resources such as smb or now mtp
> without having to make a local copy.

I have started on this here: https://github.com/sandsmark/vlc-kio


> 2. Re-implement existing ffmpeg functionality in KDE using gstreamer.
> ffmpeg is used by things like nepomuk, but has licensing issues that
> makes it impossible to build against it. […]

Bullshit, ffmpeg is LGPLv2.1 (or later), which is the same as kdelibs, and
therefore perfectly acceptable for KDE and all distros that use KDE.

-- 
Martin Sandsmark
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