[Banshee-List] Allow save/export of web videos (youtube and friends) to banshee

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

Hey all, first of all congrats on the 1.0 release, I look forward to
throwing my considerable mp3 collection at it :)  I had this idea
though, and have a bug written up but not submitted as I want to find
out if it's stupid or not.

An interesting and I think stand out feature for Banshee (2.0?) would be
the ability for users to save/export images from online services into
the video player portion of banshee, and export to video aware devices
(ipod video and friends).

Senario:
 - user drags URL link from youtube/vimeo/flickr video/etc or some 
   other online video service onto the library portion of banshee
 - banshee recognizes the link and extracts the video for playing 
   locally, either by creating a window around the video (ie: just show
   by flash player from the originating site) or actually extracting 
   it and saving it locally
 - video is now in the banshee video library and playable / sortable / 
   taggable / etc just like any other video in there
 - when attaching a device with video capabilities (ie: ipod, zune, 
   etc) the video playlists including those from youtube/etc are 
   available for syncing to the devices
 - videos are transcoded on the fly to a compatible format when synced 
   to the ipod/etc just as music is.

That's the idea anyway, making it as seamless as possible for the user 
to allow them to simply drag a video or link into banshee and have 
it available just like any other video would be the goal.  Perhaps 
the interface would end up with a video-podcast like interface with 
a "Web Video" channel or something?

What do you think?  Worth an enhancement bug?

-- 
Alan <alan ufies org> - http://arcterex.net
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