Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: kmp -- Kid's Media Player - audio and video player designed especially for children Hi Michael, Have you considered packaging it yourself? You can ask for advice and look for a sponsor on http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors Full quote below for the benefit of debian-devel. Kind regards, Andrei On Du, 08 sep 13, 21:16:57, Michael Staggs wrote: > Package: kmp > Severity: wishlist > > This is an audio and video player that uses pictures for navigation instead of > text to give children the ability to select their own music and videos to play > even before they're able to read. I coded it using Python and PyQT because I > gave my five year old daughter a linux box and there wasn't anything out there > to fill this niche. > > It features album search by cover art, video search by thumbnail and plays > mp3s for audio and mov, mp4, mpeg and m4v videos. It plays the videos full > screen and allows pausing by hitting the spacebar or quitting the video by > hitting q. For audio, you can play and pause as well. In addition, when you > play a song, it searches the album info on wikipedia and, if you're old enough > to read, you can click browser to read it. > > I tried to make it very simple and my daughter now uses it daily with no > problems. The Doudoulinux developers have expressed interest in putting the > kmp in their next major release, but I want to get it out to as wide an > audience as possible because there is nothing like it for children right now. > > It is released under GPLv3 and you can get the source tarball (as well as > screenshots) from the Qt-apps.org page: http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=160528 > > or the development code from google code: http://code.google.com/p/kids-media-player/ > > You can see a video demo of it here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s3ETtIGw7I > > I'd really appreciate it if someone could package this and it could be > included in Debian. -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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