New application: Videocatcher

Jonas Müller jonas.mueller at gmail.com
Sun Apr 25 21:53:14 CEST 2010


> What about an akonadi-based system to handle podcasts and video
> podcasts?  Then dataengines could be provided to allow plasma to make
> use of it, and other applications (like Amarok, as an example) could
> also integrate it.  That way we don't need a bunch of different
> implementations doing the same basic thing.

There was a Google Summer of Code project that tried to do that for normal RSS 
feeds but it never was completely finished:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/RSS_framework_for_Akonadi

Unfortunately I know nothing about programming in Akonadi but I hope that 
Videocatcher will be able to use a "KRSS extended for pod/videocasts" at some 
point.

Jonas


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