From kde-core-devel  Wed Feb 18 21:06:12 2004
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:06:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Disabling aRts in knotify
Message-Id: <200402182206.12652.wheeler () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 21:48, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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....). 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 describing is a media framework.  And what you're calling a 
backend is mostly just a sound server.

This distinction is blurry for people just looking at KDE because aRts is 
both; but i.e. GStreamer isn't a soundserver and Jack isn't a framework or 
"backend" in common usage...

- -Scott

- -- 
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb 
as the next guy. 
- --Richard Feynman
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