Plasma/Plasma Media Center/getting started with PMC

Introduction

Plasma media Center (PMC) is KDE's Media Center which allow you to play your favourite songs, view lovely pictures and watch viedos together at one place.

This wiki page is created mainly tell how and from where a person should start with in order to contribute into this project. Our main wiki page related to Plasma Media Center is available at http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center

Source Code

You can browse Plasma Media center source code at https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/plasma-mediacenter/repository

To get the current source code from git, you can use following in your terminal

    $ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter

Package dependency

You need to install follwoing package before compiling PMC source code

Following Required devel pacakge:

    * kde-workspace
    * qt-mobility
    * taglib
    * nepomuk-core

kffmpegthumbnailer as optional

Building source

Go inside plasma-mediacenter folder

     $ cd plasma-mediacenter

Now, create a build directory. build directory will contain all binaries, libraries generated by make

     $ mkdir build

Enter into build directory

     $ cd build

Run cmake in source directory, you can also provide custom path in option -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to tell where your final binary should get installed

     $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`

Run make command to generate binaries

     $ make or,
     $ make -j(n+1)         # here, n = number of CPU available in your system

Now, install binaries to path mentioned in option -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

      $ sudo make install

Now, run kbuildsycoca4 in order to get plugins loaded

      $ kbuildsycoca4

- You can also take help from blog http://sinny.in/node/25

Bug report and fixes

Once you are done with successful installation, run plasma-mediacentr and use various features available into it.

You can file bug related to PMC at https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=plasma-mediacenter&format=guided
You can also take a look at existing bug in PMC https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=plasma-mediacenter and can try to fix them

Getting Help

If you have any question or need any kind of help then

You can send email on plasma-devel Mailing List https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel . We would love to help you :)
You can also ping us on IRC channel #plasma on freenode