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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multimedia in KDE 3.5.8 {Follow Up}
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-09-30 22:16:17
Message-ID: 47002031.5010609 () acm ! org
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James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Please discuss on kde-devel.
> 
> IIUC, we are making a new release.  I agree that this is needed.  We 
> should continue to make bug fix released and maintenance releases at 
> least till 4.0.0 is released.
> 
> I notice that we have some maintenance issues in KDEMultimedia.
> 
> We do not appear to support the new MusicBrainz/TunePimp.  IIUC, there 
> is a new server and a new protocol and that the old server is going to 
> be taken down soon.

Well, I don't know what to do about this.  But aren't we going to use 
MusicBrainz-3 in KDE-4?  So, can't we backport when it is done?

> We do not appear to support the latest releases of Ogg/Vorbis.  However, 
> MP3 works on OK with KDE players on my system.

I said appear because I wasn't sure -- I upgraded and ....  I would say 
that I have a rather odd bug.  Ogg files will not play with any of the 
players that ship _with_ KDE-3.5 BRANCH.  Everything else I have (and 
that is a lot) except that I haven't finished upgrading Amarok will play 
Ogg files and FLAC files play OK with the KDE shipping apps that won't 
play Ogg.  I even tried the command line player: AkodePlay.  It plays 
Ogg perfectly, so there is something wrong somewhere in the KDE SVN.  I 
hope that it is only on my system.

> I do not know the current status of aRts vs GLib.  I was running 1.5.1 
> with Fedora patches which seemed to work OK.  I am currently trying the 
> SVN 1.5 BRANCH without patches built against GLib-2.14.1 to see if it 
> will work.  If not, I will try to find some patches for a version newer 
> than 1.5.1.

I am very pleased to say that I built aRts 1.5 BRANCH SVN against 
GLib-2.14.1 and then built KDE 3.5 BRANCH SVN against them and sound 
seems to work OK except for the Ogg issue.  Apparently aRts and/or GLib 
seem to have been fixed. :-D

-- 
JRT
 
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