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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:25, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> I mean almost everything in KDE is plugin-based, I think it must be
> possible to make the kde sound backend plugin-based too. One plugin for
> arts, one for OSS, one for ALSA, one for gstreamer, one for MAS, ....

That's what I hope we can do for KDE 4.

> Basically these plugins would simply forward sampled raw audio data to the
> backend. Almost no cpu usage, much few chances to crash, etc.

This wouldn't even be enough since you need to do the reading, decoding and=
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resampling (if needed) to be able to play .wav and .ogg files. For knotify=
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and probably for some simple games that'd be ok then. But a media player or=
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game relying on the right timing of the sound might have a lot more complex=
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needs. (just to let you know it's not a piece of cake to get this right)

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C'ya
        Matthias
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