A media player with codecs on default install - PC-BSD Forums

Charles · #1 12-29-2005, 07:30 PM

Wouldn't it make sense to have a media player with codecs on default install?

I think we could remove Noatun and have Amarok and KMPlayer + the codecs instead...

cb22 · #2 12-30-2005, 09:21 AM

So there i was... check out all the cool little python tidbits when i came across...
http://www.pymedia.org/tut/index.html
Seems to be really cool, if someone can work on a hot gui for me in PS or GIMP, i'll be happy to code and impliment it. I've already gotten it to play all my videos and music, so i could make one killer multimedia app!

Charles · #3 12-30-2005, 02:18 PM

Do you mean you only need to create the GUI ?

cb22 · #4 12-30-2005, 04:26 PM

Yeah all i need is a nice gui, then i can just basically import the pymedia modules, add a playlist and command line arg function and you'll have a media player!

lazyilmaz · #5 12-30-2005, 05:46 PM

I'll try to make a simple gui :wink:

Charles · #6 12-30-2005, 08:36 PM

Gosh! That sounds good! How many weeks will you still need to complete the server manager? Then we could work on the media player

Could we have all the features Windows Media Player has? We could name it "PC-BSD Media Player", and could it read MP3s, DVDs and WMV files?

:roll:

lazyilmaz · #7 12-30-2005, 09:36 PM

here you go

Originally Posted by youlle

how long has konqueror been a media player?

damn it i dont want a FileviewerWebBrowserFtpViewerMediaPlayer

there has to be a point where you say stop! otherwise we end up KDE being made up of just one thing... Konqueror

:roll:

Tsuroerusu · #8 12-30-2005, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Charles

Gosh! That sounds good! How many weeks will you still need to complete the server manager? Then we could work on the media player

Could we have all the features Windows Media Player has? We could name it "PC-BSD Media Player", and could it read MP3s, DVDs and WMV files?

:roll:

DVDs and Windows Media are very problematic because it's illegal to use those codecs in the US! Especially libdvdcss, it violates the DMCA, and distributing the w32codecs package violates a lot of Microsoft's patents.

By the way, you guys should take a look at KPlayer, IMHO it's way better than KMPlayer! It might need a little bit of polish since it hasn't been updated for a little while, but it's just so much more seemless to use, especially the File --> Open stuff....

Charles · #9 12-30-2005, 10:58 PM

That looks cool...
I had a look at their home page and its features... What features does it have that KMPlayer doesn't?

Tsuroerusu · #10 12-30-2005, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by Charles

That looks cool...
I had a look at their home page and its features... What features does it have that KMPlayer doesn't?

It's not exactly features I'm reffering to, it's more the way the application is put together. For example, if you go to File --> Open, the way you open new files are weird, and iratating to use IMHO, with KPlayer, when you pick File --> Open you get a regular KDE file dialog and select the file you want and off you go. Also the last time I tried KMPlayer, whenever I double clicked a video file it would open a new session of KMPlayer, which really annoyed me because I couldn't have one video playing and double click another in Konqueror and the current video would be stopped and the double clicked one automatically started, which was kind of a pain in the butt. I've adjusted KPlayer to it only has the File, View, Player, Playlist... toolbar, so it's very simple to look at. For example , back when I was still using Windows, I preffered the old stripped down Windows Media Player 6 (Or even better then open source Media Player Classic imitation of it) instead of the clunky and bloated newer versions which took forever to start up and had ads and crap.

Charles by the way, in PC-BSD how come the KDE programs have a seperate menu section in the KMenu? Isn't that a little confusing to users?

Originally Posted by Charles

I think we could remove Noatun and have Amarok and KMPlayer + the codecs instead...

I think that's a great idea, amaroK is a brilliant music player, and then if we have a very simple video player that's not acting weird, like Noatun sometimes are, then I think PC-BSD would be a good platform for multimedia (We just need a PBI for libdvdcss and w32codecs and all that stuff hosted over here in europe and let it be widely know: "Hey you can download the codecs from overseas and then you're in business" :P ).