From kde-multimedia  Mon Jan 03 11:47:25 2005
From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <christian () fluendo ! com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:47:25 +0000
To: kde-multimedia
Subject: Re: Wanted: aRts-engine maintainer for amaroK
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Hi Martin,
Anything in particular failing for you with GStreamer on AMD64? Afaik so
should there be no particular reason for GStreamer to fail on this
platform, yet I guess the number of people trying it in combination with
a 64bit distro hasn't been that great yet.

Christian

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 19:56 +0100, Martin Honermeyer wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> I am using the aRts-engine, too. As far as I know, it is not possible to
> have sound in other KDE applications simultaneously, with the other engines
> (Xine, GStreamer). I have email notifications in KMail, for example.
> 
> This is a great drawback and the reason why I am still using the
> aRts-engine. I think most of the other people have the same problems, too.
> Also, GStreamer didn't ever work for me (AMD64 user)..
> 
> Is there any workaround / solution I have overlooked?
> 
> 
> Happy new year!
> Martin
> 
> 
> Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 
> > Situation is as follows:
> >  
> > 1) aRts-engine is currently unmaintained (and has been for quite some
> > time). The longer it stays unmaintained, the more bugs will show up,
> > especially subtle incompatibilities with newer KDE releases.
> >  
> > 2) None of our devs uses aRts these days. We're lacking both the time and
> > motivation to maintain aRts-engine.
> >  
> > 3) From user feedback we have learned that many folks still use the
> > aRts-engine. Any crashes/problems with the engine will automatically have
> > a negative effect on amaroK's overall reputation, as the user often can't
> > tell what the cause of a problem is. At some point (perhaps for 1.2 final)
> > we will be forced to disable this engine entirely, if a new maintainer
> > cannot be found.
> >  
> > 
> > So, if you are interested in doing the job, please let us know.
> > 
> > 
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