Interest/Knowledge in/about freeware Blu-ray player development?

[moviefan]

Hi guys,

I'm very interested in all this new HD stuff, especially Blu-ray, and noticed that there are only (a few) commercial (and not really pleasing) software players for Blu-ray playback available. So my idea is to program an open source player, but to be honest I have no practical experience with programming a media player, but what I have is C/C++ programming knowledge. Additionally, I have basic (maybe a little more) knowledge of DVD structure and have studied a little about Blu-rays. If anyone is interested in helping and feels able to contribute, please contact me. All by myself, I think it's a total overkill, but discussing things in a group might make this project possible.

[rse]

I´m programming a mediaplayer with Lazarus (open source equivalent to Delphi). Until now, I don´t have any experience in C/C++.
Yet implemented:

playback media files (only) through DirectShow (others could be easily integrated)
open files through command line (required for file type association)
quick file opening (unlike wmp, who takes minutes for many files)
kick files who can´t be played
an advanced shuffle system
stepless speed change (still in development, without pitch-preserve yet)

To do:

volume control
pitch preserve
take control over the video-window
drag´n´drop
playlist-support
id3-tags
collect file information (playback length, ID3 etc.) about all files in the list in a second thread

I´m not yet sure about going open source, but if you want, you could write an open source dll which supports the Blu-ray menus etc. So I would write the UI (or probably it could be excluded into an open source dll as well), you say what interfaces you need, write a dll with all the menu interpretion and get access to the playback-possibilities through the interface.

P.S.: It´s my first media-project, too ;-)