"finger" Friendly Media Player?

[maroc]

After seeing EvilDragon's latest video, I started thinking about options for a "finger" friendly media player. While I think applications like xmms will work fine for general use with the pandora (e.g. listening to music while browsing), I don't think its best for users on the go. I could see pandora users who just wanted to listen to music during travel. Instead of having to open up the pandora, grab the stylus, switch to xmms, search for the right buttons, replace the stylus, and close the pandora, the user would simply open up, "push" the right button and close it back.

There may be xmms skins that would do the job, but I also started thinking that mythfrontend might be a better option. Mythfrontend with plugins is a decent media player. Its large "buttons" would be perfect for a touchscreen and other users may want to actually use it to connect to a backend.

I haven't done my homework so I don't know what it will take to get mythfrontend and plug-ins running on the pandora but I don't think there are any show stoppers. MythVideo and MythMusic are frontend plugins so mythbackend and mysql won't be needed.

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas for better alternatives?

 

[Capn_Fish]

I suspect a skin on VLC/MPlayer/XMMS is going to be the easiest way to go.

 

[CyruzDraxs]

If all goes well I'll be porting XBMC, so that could work well for that. I need to get a Pandora and more free time first though. With the way the economy is I don't know when I'll be able to afford to reorder the Pandora. <_<

 

[JayFoxRox]

Don't forget that you can also have hotkeys and you wouldn't have to open the pandora, mediaplayers without display also work.

 

[zo0o0ot]

I would think that porting Canola over from the n800 series would be the easiest option to get something touch friendly. Canola is already written for the OMAP architecture, so the port wouldn't be as difficult. What does everyone else think?

 

[sindbad]

Canola is written mainly in Python and uses EFL, so it should be already ported. It has no OMAP specific code as far as I know, except the odd highly optimised codec.