Bug 264309

Summary:	Bangarang as the new default library-based player.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdemultimedia	Reporter:	Alejandro Nova <alejandronova>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Multimedia Bugs <multimedia-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Alejandro Nova 2011-01-26 02:50:18 UTC

Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

Now we have 2 programs to play media in KDE Multimedia. Juk, a library-based media player, and Dragon Player, a file-based media player. As you know, Juk lacks maintenance, and Dragon Player is essentially in maintenance mode. While all this happen, a new NEPOMUK-based player, Bangarang, is slowly gaining traction and, with KDE 4.6, is expected not only to have an imminent release, 2.0, but to reach its fullest potential because of NEPOMUK bug-fixing (thinking about bug 246678, among others).

With NEPOMUK being in a truly usable state, Bangarang should shine and make a library-based player like Juk irrelevant. Moreover, Bangarang (as seen here: http://groups.google.com/group/bangarang-media-player/browse_thread/thread/c574de74c2cdc47b?pli=1 ) will support the new Web Metadata Extractor Framework expected for future KDE SC releases, and can feed semantic information to NEPOMUK. Something Juk can only dream of.

My wish is: support Bangarang as a first class citizen, overwrite its version number and include it in the KDE Software Compilation, as the default library-based player and with the potential to become a competent file-based player also. The benefits to KDE as a whole (validation of the NEPOMUK framework, extensive pumping of metadata through all the NEPOMUK database, sinergies with the NEPOMUK team about speed and optimization) are immense.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-01-26 13:20:15 UTC

The request to include a specific program into the KDE Software Compilation has to come from the maintainer of that application. Your comment does not indicate that you are willing to maintain it.

Additionally, as far as I can see, Bangarang is not part of extragear or playground repositories.

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