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First of all I'm not a native speaker so sorry if something is not quite understandable
Here's my idea:
I think that many people do not only copy their music, but also their movies to their PCs - like me for example. And it would be great if I could handle my movies with the same program i handle my music with: AMAROK!!
So I thought about something like this:

As you can see i was thinking about tabs to jump between you music and you film collection. (Actually it would also be great to have another series tab)
The titles should be sorted by their genre and maybe amarok could also get the covers for movies.
Double-clicking onto the movie surely makes it fullscreen.
And maybe its possible to write a little plugin that shows the film details from for example imdb.

Hope you like it

Well I dont think that Amarok devs are want Amarok to go this way, but still..
Maybe check out kdelook, where similar idea was proposed.
And there are other video and music players out there
like KMplayer, SMPlayer and VLC (which isn-t in qt anymore).
I will approve it, to see what other say about it.
(I have a feeling there was a similar idea to this, but I did not find it, maybe it really was just the kdelook idea...)

I would like an application like amarok for videos, but i wouldn't like amarok playing videos...
A different application woould be much better

But it should definitely share code with Amarok. It should just be something like another data-backend with some special Plasmoids. And for those who want to it could also be integrated into one application without problems.

Kaffeine or Bangarang would come to my mind.

Kaffeine has great DVB features and Bangarang has already nice support for KDE4 technologies like usage of Nepomuk.
But both miss the actually video database what Amarok has for music, like the left sidepanel. The bangarang has more like basic playlists (videos, movies, series etc) for them and shows them on right side then.

And Tellico is a application basicly for all kind library things. If we could mix Tellico (IMDB information for videos, loaned and sold information and all other what it actually offers to videos) with Bangarang and Kaffeines DVB features moved to Bangarang, we could have such application from Bangarang.

Altough, Kaffeine needs as well only a library "tab" and IMDB support so it could be as well such application for videos like Amarok is for music and digiKam for photos.

Amarok 2.2 already has video support. The particular improvements should be submitted as separate ideas.

Well, it has video support but only for Youtube videos. And that's idea is simply to offer functions for music videos. So it is only as music player feature.

I would not still count it as direction for movie database and neither does Amarok developers want to extend it's functionality to cover such.

That is not true, it can play ordinary video files off your hard drive. I just tried it. You can also add video files off your hard drive to a playlist.

So if amarok is already able to play video files it shouldn't be such a problem to do the rest, too
And I don't think that the amarok team is not interestet to expand amarok by this feature if they already amde amarok able to play videos.
Sadly I can't test it right now because my amarok crashes like every 20 seconds (I think its a qt problem).

As I said, the rest of the stuff should be posted in separate ideas, one thread for each idea.

I did not know they have extended it's features to play other videos as well than just youtube what it search automatically. Nice to know that as well.

I think it should be done like in KDevelop:
KDevelop is the core-application (something like Amarok) but a great backend (KDevPlatform) is provided: It handles all the common development tasks and provides a plugin-infrstructure. Other applications like Quanta, Kile or Gluon Creator simply provide some plugins and a modified user-interface, but the plugins can optionally also be used in KDevelop. This idea is really great.
Such a system should be implemented for Amarok: A central media-management service, different UIs (Amarok-style, Tellico-style, bangarang-style), shared plugins, shared infrstructure for databases... Triple implementation is bad, the KDevPlatform-idea is nearly perfect!

That is a separate idea, and outside the scope of amarok.

That was a comment about this Amarok-discussion. Why isn't it in the scope of Amarok? Amarok is the leading organizing-xyz-media-application in KDE. It was the same with KDevelop. You could also say: It is not in the scope of KDevelop to help Kile.