From kde-devel Sun Aug 17 12:45:21 2003 From: Koos Vriezen Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:45:21 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: kplayer vs. kmplayer X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106112417125116 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Martin Koller wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen, that there are 2 very similar applications, > one called kmplayer at http://www.xs4all.nl/~jjvrieze/ and > one called kplayer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/kplayer/ > > My question is: Wouldn't it be beneficial if these 2 projects work together to > build one superb application for KDE ? Sure we could :). However these projects aren't that similar if you take a closer look at the features (I had this discussion before with the author of kumaplayer). KMPlayer has a main focus on embedding, like mplayer-plug/kaboodle. I've put much effort in making it play almost everything on the web, adding javascript binding to it etc. Last addition is a koffice plugin for video inside a presentation (not functional yet). It also tries to be more then just a frontend to mplayer, currently also mencoder/xine/ffmpeg (all three only partial implemented now, and ffmpeg is more a workaround for the s*cking v4l support of mplayer - will check xine version one day..). I think KPlayer is more an app like noatun, a full featured stand-alone media viewer. The only way I see an intergration now is that KPlayer would use libkmplayercommon or something similar as interface to mplayer. But I think Kiriuja wouldn't just like to give up on the current efforts. Also KPlayer seems to be quite pupular. And I must say it looks very impressive from the screenshots I've seen. (KMPlayer as a stand-alone app. has a very poor interface, anyone who want to improve it is very much welcome or indeed port/fork KPlayer for it) There should be done something about the name issue, I think. KMPlayer supporting more than mplayer now, I should think of a new name. Suggestions :) ? Regards, Koos >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<