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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Disabling aRts in knotify
From:       Matthias Kretz <kretz () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-18 20:58:52
Message-ID: 200402182158.56923.kretz () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:48, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:25, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> ...
>
> > Again, none of the multimedia apps in KDE deal with raw audio.  I know
> > that solution sounds attractive and all that, but it's just not a simple
> > problem and there's no silver bullet for fixing it.  From a software
> > developers
>
> Yes, they all use the sound stuff which depends on arts.
> Turning encoded audio into raw samples is independent from the api of the
> backend (OSS/ALSA/MAS/arts....).

Looks like your definition for a backend is only the sound output...

> The decoding step should also handle 
> things like resampling to the sample rate of the backend, to the number of
> channels of the backend, etc. And after this is done, the decoded raw data
> should be playable by any backend (otherwise I'd consider the api of the
> backend broken).

But what you're getting at here is to create a media framework. We have 
frameworks available with gstreamer, aRts, NMM and MAS. Creating our own 
would not be the way to go (IMHO). I'd rather see KDE able to use any of the 
frameworks. Because different people have different needs and KDE should be 
able to cope with that.

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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