Bringing the Canola Media Center into Ubuntu
We would like to present the Canola project, a media center well suited for a great range of devices, show it running on Ubuntu (it's already packaged on a PPA) and also on mobile devices, and go quickly through it's features, both for developers and for end users. The project has recently been open sourced with a GPL3 license and there are screenshots and a list of features at http://
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Rick Spencer
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
== Goals ==
* Overview of Canola
* Proposal for inclusion into Ubuntu
== Canola Intro ==
* Initially, a media player for Nokia internet tablets (N8x0)
- no video acceleration
- touchscreen
* Canola 1
- C, GObject and SDL
- Youtube video: http://
- closed source
* Canola 2
- Python and EFL
- Good interaction between designers and developers
- Youtube video: http://
- recently open sourced using GPLv3 license
== Features ==
* Modular architecture, everything is a plugin
* Different processes to do different things:
- Canola daemon takes care of scanning (uses lightmediascanner now, but can be changed)
- Atabake handles actually playing media
* Plugins for:
- local playback of music and video
- image viewer
- {pod, video, photo}casts
- youtube
- last.fm
- flickr (entirely made by community, before Canola was even open sourced)
- settings and options
* Backends for GStreamer, MPlayer, OSSO media server (N8x0 specific)
* Works great on x86 and arm devices
* Focused on touchscreen based devices
* Needs some work for better user experience with other input methods
* Canola is built on top of Terra framework
- built specifically for this kind of applications
* Other cool apps can be created
* The action menus on the top can be expanded for other functionalities, such as quick control and network connection (connman)
* Can Canola use the shared media library that was proposed for Ubuntu ?
- Yes, it's written in Python and it would be very straightforward to use it
== Community ==
* Canola is the most downloaded application from Maemo Garage
* Really active user community (ITT forum)
* 5 projects accepted on Google Summer of Code
- Picasa
- Remember the Milk (RTM)
- Bittorrent
- Twitter
- Instant Messaging
== Inclusion into Ubuntu ==
* PPA already available
- http://
* Recently created Canola project and team on Launchpad
* MOTU? Anyone?
