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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multimedia in KDE 3.5.8 {Follow Up}
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-30 23:17:58
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0709301617o19d0d4f4m4aef848dc3746e91 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 10/1/07, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote:
> 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?

Possibly. But who is 'we', and should we spend time on that NOW, while
we're gearing up for our largest release in years? Can't this be
postponed to at least af

> > 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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