From kde-multimedia Wed Feb 26 23:19:18 2003 From: Tim Jansen Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:19:18 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: CSL Motivation X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=104630154417397 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 23:52, Neil Stevens wrote: > Every framework we've considered can output to other frameworks, so CSL's > primary benefit of interoperability is redundant. Such a layer is not redundant. CSL lacks important features for it though. It provides a relatively direct interface to the sound device. Programs like games usually do not use a framework to access the sound device, or they use specialized libraries like SDL_mixer/SDL. Or a developer may want to use codecs directly, like xmms does. The user could configure CSL using KControl and all CSL-capable apps would then respect these settings. It could also make sure that there is a common naming schemes for sound devices among non-KDE apps. Right now some apps allow you to select them by device name (/dev/dspX), some by the name that the sound API provides, and some not at all... bye... _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia