Plasma Media Center

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This blog post is all about my latest involvement in KDE and that is with one of its media application called PLASMA MEDIA CENTER .

In a nutshell, Plasma Media Center is an innovative step in redefining the user experience where media - such as photos, videos, songs etc. are combined in one KDE application. Users can view pictures, watch movies and listen to their favourite sound tracks all at one common place. Now, there is no more hassle of choosing different apps to enjoy the multimedia files. Recently Plasma Media Center’s very first version was released. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies it is designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts.

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My GSoC 2013 application concerns the improvements and enhancements of Plasma Media Center. 

In this post, I will talk about building and running PMC (Plasma Media Center) from source on Ubuntu 12.10 or greater.

First, you need to install some required packages :

$ sudo  apt-get install kde-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev build-essential
$ sudo  apt-get install libdeclarative-multimedia
$ sudo  apt-get install libtag1-dev
$ sudo  apt-get install kffmpegthumbnailer
$ sudo apt-get install nepomuk-core-dev

Now instructions for building PMC :

$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter      //Cloning from the git repository
$ cd plasma-mediacenter                                                 
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
$ make
$ sudo make install

While doing "make"



























After this PMC is ready to be launched !

If you feel like contributing to the Plasma Media Center, please check out the following links--


I am going to share other interesting hacks on PMC in my next blog posts....








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