GSOC 2012

[Prashanth Ravi]

I am Comp Sc Bachelor's student from India. For my final year project I am
developing a media player using Win32 API,libavcodec etc. One of the
features of the above mentioned player was to integrate into the file
explorer and make it easier for users to select the files that they want to
play.

I am submitting a brief idea of this feature so that any of the users in
the mailing list could tell me when it's useful and/or viable on
KDE/dolphin etc.

Problem:
X has a large video collection contained within different levels of sub
directories.Unlike audio files(mp3/ogg etc.) most video files do not have
tags associated with them.
Of course you can add tags or other metadata, but unlike the audio file,
videos rarely have an artist/album or title. X wants to play select files.

Solutions:
1.Include a screenshot of the file within the file manager
2.Include continuous screenshots of the file in the file manager
3.Include a quick play feature, ie the user can play the file in another
pane.

for #1,#2 & #3,will the user have to drag and drop each file one by one to
the player? What if each video is in a different directory?

I am attaching some pictures with this email (mock up sketches of the app
feature of the original player, not the current proposal).

Proposal:
1.For directories containing video files, the file explorer provides a
playlist/listbox to add them.
2.User can play file, if he likes it, he adds it to the playlist.
3.The playlist is persistent across directories.
4.After finalizing, he can click a button and the default video player
starts with the playlist.

Notes:
I have a collection of music videos and "drag and drop" was the only
solution for me , this feature was inspired by picasa viewer.
And KDE is kinda new to me(did some coding with Qt for simple apps such as
calculator,text viewer etc and used KDE for around a year), so could
someone point me in the right direction?
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