PMC use case

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2010/3/30 Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>

> On Monday 29 March 2010 21:02:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > thoughts?
>
> I don't agree with the "PMC should target notebooks" as primary usecase
> bit. I really
> think that this thing should be developed to have its UI run on a TV,
> preferably HD-
> Ready or Full-HD resolution. Those devices tend to be easily hooked up with
> a
> computer nowadays (as Jane knows), (ours has both HDMI and D-Sub and is
> also a fine
> monitor). The key difference is wether to rely on a mouse pointer or not,
> and how
> interaction looks like otherwise.
>
> Now that's of course me being selfish, because I, at some point, want to
> use PMC on
> this kind of device as my Media Center. What I have in mind is roughly:
>
> - PMC running on a netbook or comparatively cheap hardware
> - easily controllable from a 10 foot distance, using a remote control or a
> wiimote
> - connected to the Internet, so web video (youtube, blip, miro, ...) should
> be first
>  class citizens
> - access to the local and networked media library (in the same way ("it
> doesn't
>  matter where it's stored") via SMB, uPnP, HTTP
> - built-in web browser that's basically usable by a remote / wiimote(*) as
> well
> - full-screen media player with overlaid Plasma widgets to control playback
> and
>  playlist
> - good bookmarking support (favourites for web and local videos, easy way
> to
>  find/remember the current/next episode of a TV show)
> - contextual information for content (Nepomuk, IMDB, discogs, ...)
> - Remotely editable playlist (pull up your notebook / n900 and edit the
> playlist on
>  the PMC without interrupting playback)
>
> The key is really to support commodity hardware, things people already have
> or can
> get rather inexpensively and turn it into a media center with little effort
> (basically install PMC, and hook up the TV to it).
>
>

> (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a Qt-style
> class that
> can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs,
> accelerometers
> and haptic feedback at this point. I've got myself a copy of O'Reilly's
> "designing
> gestural interfaces", and I think we can get quite far, from a
> functionality and an
> intuitiveness point of view by using such a device as main controller.
> That's
> something I work on in a lost hour here and there.
>

Do you have some code i can look at/contribute to? I have a wiimote and I'd
like to start playing with it for the PMC. Am I supposed to have infrared on
my laptop?


>
> Some of the above are quite specific ideas, and it might be different from
> what other
> people think about it. In any event, while developing, please keep the
> above in mind,
> so I won't have to do it all myself when I scratch my itches. :)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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Alessandro Diaferia
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