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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: Proposal: libunixmm.so (about the Comparison: MAS, GStreamer,
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2004-09-09 21:47:42
Message-ID: 200409092347.42384.kde () carewolf ! com
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On Thursday 09 September 2004 23:16, Christian Esken wrote:
> On Thursday 09 September 2004 21:54, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 21:48, Christian Esken wrote:
> > > Could we an informal voting about that? I would like to see a clearer
> > > picture.  Just stand up and mail "I agree" or "I do NOT agree"
> >
> > Voting hasn't ever worked in KDE and really seems pretty pointless.
>
> So you want to go the KDE way?  The one who takes the lead has the power.
> But then the discussions on this mailing-list are futile and just wasted
> time:
>
> We are happily wasting time to prove to each other that there is no optimal
> sound system: One has no network transparency, the other one has not enough
> developer support, the other one lacks realtime performance, the next
> cannot capture audio data, and so on, and so on.
>
> > In my writeup and in our talks we discussed that it would be good to have
> > a default sound server, but that there's really no point in worrying
> > about such just yet since the output would be handled by the media
> > backend that we're using anyway.
>
> Well, thats the point. We have not agreed on a media backend either.
> We have not even agreed whether we need to select a backend.
>
> With the current state of affairs (kde-multimedia has no common goal), I
> would be happy if somebody would just go the KDE way: Take the lead, and
> try out some backends. Like doing a hacked up version of KAudioPlayer that
> uses MAS or GStreamer as backend. I'll probably do that myself ... even if
> half of the kde-multimedia people will after that throw stones at me :)
>
What do you think the kdemm stuff is all about? 
Wanna join?

`Allan
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