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Subject: Re: Disabling aRts in knotify
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: 2004-02-18 21:06:12
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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