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Subject: Re: KDE4 MM, a view from usability and general applicaiton
From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <christian () fluendo ! com>
Date: 2004-09-08 7:19:35
Message-ID: 1094627975.2457.64.camel () cschalle ! fluendo ! com
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This is not true, the GStreamer pipeline was designed taking real-time
concerns into special consideration (pipeline introduce no overhead in
itself) as the original author (Erik Walthinsen) main goal was to use it
in a real-time application he was making.
Andy Wingo, who is our current ´pro-audio ´ developer, has some comments
on the real-time capabilities of GStreamer on the homepage of his
application SoundScrape:
http://ambient.2y.net/soundscrape/
Christian
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 17:57, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Monday 06 September 2004 23:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > However, some media apps, especially the sort we are currently missing in
> > KDE (think Garage Band =) need access to a full-featured multimedia API.
>
> Afaik, as soon as you will start developing such a realtime recording and
> playing application, you will notice that neither of the discussed
> mediaframeworks are suitable and will soon come to Jack, which is perfect for
> professional uses but not usable for the "simple" things kde needs.
> An example is the development of Rosegarden which at first had support for
> aRts as well but soon dropped it as aRts was not fast enough like every other
> frameworked discussed on this list...
>
> My vote:
> - Configurable Backends, backend-choosing done via textfile...
> - Simple API for multimedia (including video, sound, etc)
>
> And please don't dream of doing professional audio (needing low-latency) with
> a framework chosen for complex multimedia.
>
> Back to learning,
>
> Arnold
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
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