Hi folks, For people who might not have heard of it, Jungle[1][2] is a video player geared towards movies and TV series which leverages Baloo for search. The main idea is that sources on the Internet can be used to fetch a lot of information about such movies and TV series, and that is exactly what Jungle intends to do.
To me, It makes a lot of sense for something like this to be part of Plasma Media Center[#] because it is targeted to similar use cases. There are a lot of advantages if something like Jungle is a PMC backend- * UI Elements for free - A backend just needs to expose one (or more) models to PMC and it will take care of playback controls, switching between modes etc. Exposing more than model automatically creates a tabbed interface. * Media workflow management - PMC will take care of playback, playlist management and other similar things for the backend. * Backend custom UI - Even though PMC does offer three types of media browsers (list, grid, and tabbed), if a backend needs to show its own UI its as easy as exposing a QML element. This is already in use by the Picasa backend. * Better experience for users - Instead of installing multiple applications for different kinds of media, its a much better experience for a KDE user if we can provide everything at one place. Some users have already expressed this in comments on [1] and [2]. Additionally, this is not a limited set of features, if there are things that a backend would need but is not present, PMC would be more than happy to include those as well. Given that Randa sprint is upcoming and lot of KDE developers will be present, it'll be nice if this can be discussed along with the usual discussions around Jungle. Though none of the PMC contributors will be physically present due to cost constraints, we'll be more than happy to do it over some kind of video call. Sounds like a good idea? [#] In fact, we already have a backend which categorizes video files according to not just a fixed pattern but according to a threshold of similarity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity> between file names and paths https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/plasma-mediacenter/repository/revisions/vsrao-seriesbackend/show/browsingbackends/seriesbackend The labels are still not generic, but it looks like this https://i.imgur.com/C48r3nS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/e83yiPk.jpg [1] https://plus.google.com/+JosPoortvliet/posts/YtiYc4tX3hM [2] http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/07/jungle-is-coming/ -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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