Re: [Banshee-List] Another GSoC project idea

[zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Alex Launi <alex launi gmail com> wrote:
> One of the things I've been thinking about for Banshee for a long time is
> how to make it the de facto media player on the platform, for all media. How
> to completely replace rb (done) and totem (in progress). The biggest use
> case that banshee doesn't cover is just a very simple audio/video player,
> with no library management, to just play a one off file that you downloaded
> from the net. DVD was step 1 of this, so that it would be in the platform,
> step 2 was to make a very simple UI dvd player that could load the banshee
> media bits, but leave behind the db and collection management. Something
> very nice could be done to import these one offs if so desired.
> Designing and implementing this would be a great gsoc project, which I could
> volunteer to mentor.
>
> --
> --Alex Launi
>

Quicktime Player X with an overlay that would pull metadata about
currently playing movie/song, DVD/mkv chapters and a dedicated button
to open/import the file in Banshee?