GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries

Fri Apr 19 18:16:37 UTC 2013

Doing CC to plasma-devel

Thanks Saurabh for you effort. Nice start!

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj at hotmail.com>wrote:

>   Dear mam,
>
> Thanks for replying me back and presenting your views. Yes, you were right
> and I did deviate from the main point as I used the software and liked the
> idea of building such an application and therefore I thought more in
> enhancing and incorporating new features in it.
> I forgot to mention some of the improvements, which I think, can be done
> in this application. The "open with" menu option which I mentioned in my
> first mail also needs to be improved as the user can see this application
> in the above menu but due to lack of functionality provided on the back
> end, the user does not get the desired output response.
>
>
+1
I like this idea, this need to be implemented.

> Improvements in following sections can be:-
> *Music* *:-
> *Search engine (in Songs, Album, etc.) does not seem to work at all. I
> tried searching for a music which is also there in the playlist but did not
> get any results (neither did it respond with search failure nor with song
> found). Improving the song search can have an alternative if sorting
> feature is introduced by virtue of which user can sort the albums, songs
> etc according to their names. Player can be enhanced with modes like
> repeat, shuffle, etc. and reordering of songs in the playlist is also not
> there.
>

Ummm, For me search works fine for Artist, Album and songs works fine but
yeah, it doesn't display message when search result is zero.

Shuffle works in Playlist. Repeat option can be added.
Sorting of media is needed on the basis of different field like size, date,
name, length etc.

> *Pictures:-
> *Again, clicking on "All Picture" does not produce any results. Every
> time if the user has to view the pictures, he/she has to browse the
> pictures in the folders first and then load it. Further, just like we have
> the option to select some files and play them only, in a similar fashion,
> we can have option to select some pictures and then view them via slide
> show.
>
>
I guess, your Nepomuk indexer is not running or maybe haven't indexed your
picture directory. Check with that then All Picture will work fine.

Yeah, we can think of viewing selected pictures in slideshow.

> *Videos:-
> *The full screen mode toggle button can be added into video section so
> that the user can directly watch the video in full screen mode. Also, many
> a times, it happens that the user downloads the subtitles of the movie
> which he/she wants to watch as the movie is not in his/her native language.
> For eg. if the movie's name is abc.avi, the subtitle's file is renamed to
> abc.en.srt in order to view the subtitle along with the movie in media
> player. The plasma media center is unable to show the subtitles when the
> movie is being played.
> *
> *
>

Earlier Full screen Icon was in Media Player but it didn't fit well there
so we moved it into configuration section in HomeScreen.
Yeah, Video subtitle doesn't work for all possible subtitles file. Right
now it works only for ffile with filename.srt file. It needs to be improved
to work with all kinds of subtitle files.

**Kindly review the points mentioned above and please give me your
> feedback. I would try to explore more in media center and will keep you
> updated with any kind of improvements, that I come across and, can be done
> in it.
> *
> *Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:50:59 +0530
> Subject: Re: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> From: ksinny at gmail.com
> To: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
>
>
> Hi Saurabh,
>
> Thank you for showing your interest towards this project.
> I liked some of your ideas which you have mentioned but I think you have
> deviated from  our idea's title which is "Improvements and enhancements
> for Plasma Media Center".
>
> This application is not much mature not. That is why,  we are looking for
> improvement of existing features which we have. So, please go trough what
> all features are already available in PMC
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center .
>
>
> Try to use PMC and then see what all improvements you can do in it to make
> it better and more usable.
> I hope you understood what exactly we want.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Saurabh Jain <saurabhskj at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Dear mam,
>
> I would like to elaborate more on some of the ideas I mentioned in my past
> email. First of all, the feature which I proposed on the concept of
> multi-threading or thread- based multi tasking. Lets take an example in
> which user is listening to some music in the playlist. Now, if the user
> wants to play some music in other playlist or from the disk storage, it can
> be done only at the cost of termination of present session or starting a
> parallel session of media center (* process- based *multitasking ) but
> the latter one will be expensive and limited (in terms of Inter-process
> communication as well) and will require an extra memory space which will
> eventually decrease the CPU performance. Using thread- based multitasking
> in the code, rather than starting a new process every time in cases
> mentioned above, a program can run many instants of it at the same time
> which also share same memory/address space. Further, Interthread
> communication is also easily done and inexpensive as well. This concept can
> also be used to compare many pictures simultaneously and then rate it and
> tag your peers and share it (the feature of "sharing on social networking
> site") .
>
> I have an experience of working with multi- threading in Java as I built
> quite a few applets in my first year of college. So I think above mentioned
> features can also be coded in Qt platform.
> Synchronization feature- I would like to discuss with you on IRC as I am
> having some queries related to its implementation.
> I would like to know whether a scripting language like perl etc be used to
> introduce some more features based upon socket programming in media-
> center?
>
> Regards,
> Saurabh Jain
>
> ------------------------------
> From: saurabhskj at hotmail.com
> To: ksinny at gmail.com
> Subject: GSOC-2013 Proj- PMC rel. queries
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:53:52 +0530
>
>  Dear *mam,
> I, Saurabh Jain, am a sophomore, B.Tech in Computer Science and
> Engineering student at IIT Mandi. I would like to participate in this
> year's google summer of code 2013 and therefore went through the projects
> listed by KDE organisation. I explored a couple of those projects
> thoroughly and hence, I would like to share some ideas and ask queries
> related to this project with title- *Improvements and enhancements for
> Plasma Media Center. *
> I recently installed the software on my linux system and found this
> project idea to be quite an awesome to begin with. The all-in-one
> integration keeps it apart from other software. Some additional features
> like implementing a search engine which shows all the results irrespective
> of whether its a music, picture or video. Using the concept of
> multi-threading, multiple files of same type can be executed in parallel.
> Using this feature, if the user wants to compare the two files, in case of
> pictures, then he/she can do it with ease. Another feature which is
> synchronizing your files stored on the mobile device can also be added.
> Sharing of files on the social networking site can also be incorporated in
> this software which can be done using the concept of socket programming.
> At present, based upon my experience in using this software, any file like
> a song etc cannot be directly played with this application by just right
> clicking on that file and then choosing this application in the "open with"
> menu option. Adding this feature will make the user to play the file
> directly rather than first opening the software and then browsing the file
> in the directory, in case the file is not already present there in the
> media center.
>
> Kindly let me know your opinions on the above mentioned ideas.
>
> Regards and Thanks,
>
> Saurabh Jain
> Coordinator, Programming Club
> B.Tech'15, C.S.E.
> IIT Mandi
> Ph: +91-9805377265
>
>
>
>
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