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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: xmms/kaiman, artsd, and FreeBSD - and Slackware, and noatun!
From:       Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe () mediaone ! net>
Date:       2000-09-24 21:21:00
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Stefan Westerfeld wrote (on Sat, 23 Sep 2000):
> > First of all, isn't kaiman supposed to play MP3s?  It isn't over here.
>
> Yes, it is. However, as on FreeBSD nobody did real testing of this, Martin
> (maintainer of mpeglib) doesn't want to enable it to build for KDE2.0 by
> default. If somebody would effectively give mp3 and mpeg video a good test,
> maybe this would change.

It doesn't on Slackware 7.1 either.  In addition, Kaiman is very slow and 
IMHO ugly.  Wouldn't noatun be better suited for the default media player?  
The default interface is very clean, it loads *very* quickly, and has decent 
playlist support, even.

The one thing I always liked about kmp3 was it's nice clean interface.  I 
shouldn't have to use a skin if I don't want to - I rather like a native 
qt/kde interface - it's much faster that way, and simpler, and complies with 
my color scheme :)

Oh, and noatun actually works on slackware, imagine that.

> You can manually build those by manually going into kdemultimedia/mpeglib
> and kdemultimedia/mpeglib_artsplugin and using make install for each of
> these.
>
> > Compile, install.  Also, artsdsp is sort of
> > braindead and tries preloading libdl...(FreeBSD doesn't have one).  I
> > have also included a patch for that.
>
> It seems to be needed for some versions of linux, though, so I've now made
> it look like this in the CVS
>
> LD_PRELOAD=${libdir}/libartsdsp.so:${libdir}/libartsc.so
> if test -f /lib/libdl.so.2; then
>   LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD:/lib/libdl.so.2
> fi
>
> which should work on both platforms. Btw, there is a "real" xmms plugin for
> aRts available at http://home.earthlink.net/~bheath/xmms-arts, don't know
> if that works (or can be made working) out-of-the-box on FreeBSD.
>
>    Cu... Stefan

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