While attending a lecture today, I got the idea for a very simple video player that uses the Gstreamer framework. I know Totem, but I was thinking about something more like Mplayer, but with Gstreamer as the backend..

Could be a nice idea for a small project.. perhaps I'll write one at some point. The basic requirements would be:

• Use playbin inside gstreamer to play all media files gst supports
• When the user clicks on a video clip, only a window playing it will appear. Nothing else. This is the thing I love about mplayer!
• OSD-support for displaying status, volume, etc. (like mplayer). BUT perhaps with interactive OSD elements like buttons.
• A context menu that appears on right click. This should be the only toolkit dependable part (Qt, GTK, etc.).
• If the user does not supply a target clip, the window will play a non-intrusive, but cool usage-video (like tips on a black background).

Interested? Wanna help? Contact me -> lauri at sokkelo dot net