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List:       amarok
Subject:    Re: VLC engine for amarok
From:       "Ian Monroe" <ian () monroe ! nu>
Date:       2007-01-30 5:40:24
Message-ID: f680fec50701292140q4ecef6d9ybbb2e1da93e33cbc () mail ! gmail ! com
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Well we're just about to shelf Amarok 1.4 as far as feature
enhancements are concerned and stick it in its own branch. Amarok 2.0
development is about to start.

What form Amarok sound engine will take in 2.0 (whether to make it a
separate process, licensing, how much coupling with Phonon) is kind of
up in the air at this point, so its also probably premature to think
about adding a new engine for 2.0. That said, your welcome to help us
figure all this out. :)

As far as the code you have, sticking it on sourceforge or google code
hosting is probably a good idea. I just request that in the title to
not have the first word be 'Amarok' (so something like "VLC Engine for
Amarok", not "Amarok VLC Engine") and to make it clear that its not
part of the Amarok project.

Ian Monroe

On 1/29/07, Éric ALBER <eric.alber@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've written an engine for Amarok in order to use the VLC media playback
> library (www.videolan.org) as backend for your excellent audio player.
> There are still several bugs with the equalizer and the scope, but music
> playback works well :)
> VLC can be configured with the following file :
> ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/vlc-config.xml
>
> I've written this plugin because I wanted to use Amarok to play music on my
> loudspeakers connected to my freebox (a set-top-box provided by the french
> ISP free.fr). The freebox accepts mpeg audio streamed over http with VLC, so
> I just had to connect all this stuff together with an engine for amarok.
> I think this cas be adapted to other set-top-boxes.
> It works with VLC v.0.8.6. If you are using another version of vlc, change
> the MODULE_SYMBOL define in VlcDefines.h. For instance, with Ubuntu edgy,
> change it from 0_8_6 to 0_8_5 as edgy uses an svn version of VLC which is
> still internally tagged as a 0.8.5 .
>
> Here are the sources to add to the engine directory of the amarok source
> tree:
> http://eric.alber.free.fr/public/amarok-vlc-engine_0.2.tar.gz
> And there is the files to place in your ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok in order to
> use Amarok with a freebox:
> http://eric.alber.free.fr/public/amarok-vlc-settings.tar.gz
> Tell me if you encounter any problem.
>
> I just would like to know if you want to put this code in the amarok svn, if
> not, I think I'll put it on sourceforge in case it would be useful to
> someone.
>
> And finally, I just want to thank all the amarok team for the great work you
> are doing :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric ALBER
>
>
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