From kde-multimedia Sun Feb 23 17:58:48 2003 From: Leon Shiman Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:58:48 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: Media Options for KDE 4 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=104602322416787 A word about MAS by a lurker from the MAS team. I feel that it is not really fair for me to enter this discussion without responding directly to many of your well-framed concerns. But I, like all of you, have too little time to do as I would prefer. MAS was developed and is currently targetted to be integrated into all Unix/Linux releases of Sun, IBM, Hp, sgi, and others asap. We have a native port of MAS to Windows. We are now finishing a high-level "soundserver" API, and we are defining a substrate which supports cross-platform accessibility requirements, in cooperation with the accessibility forces. Sun and X.Org have partially supported the MAS development as an X.Org project. The primary target was "network transparent" audio support for X11. The second target was to support Gnome, as their primary desktop, the third was to provide a common substrate for accessibility applications, since MAS efficiently manages integration, synchronization, and timing of media data streams, independently of data type. As Ettrich, Nord, and Stefan will confirm, we've been interesting in working with the KDE effort since we began on MAS. I will be in Copenhagen next week, giving two talks on MAS, one at DKUUG on Thursday, one at LinuxForum on Saturday. I'd be glad to have the chance to speak to any of you who are there. We would like very much to participate in a face-to-face discussion of the media issues with as many of you as possible, and funds permitting, will travel. Leon Shiman Associates Inc 163 Tappan Street Brookline MA 02445 USA tel: (00)1.617.277.0087 cell: (00)1.617.642.5366 http://www.shiman.com http://www.MediaApplicationServer.net _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia