PMC use case

[Alexis Ménard]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> 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).

And why not targeting the problem at the source, integrating the
software into the TV directly.

>
> (*) 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.
>
> 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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