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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: KDE Sound and Multimedia Plan
From:       Ian Monroe <ian () monroe ! nu>
Date:       2010-12-01 21:27:57
Message-ID: AANLkTimFvFzsKazF085qu9Si1AN60Ed1OBzPKvQPmaMw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote :
> > > The things that won't allow me to use Phonon in my applications (and
> > > therefore my own needs as a dev):
> > > * No MIDI support.
> > 
> > Agreed. A system pretending to be named a "multimedia framework" should support \
> > MIDI to some degree. MacOSX  supports MIDI, Windows supports MIDI and Linux \
> > (ALSA) supports MIDI. On the other hand, KDE and Phonon ignores MIDI. The sad \
> > consequence is that users and developers interested in MIDI have to ignore \
> > Phonon, and probably KDE too.
> 
> libVLC, and therefore Phonon-VLC play MIDI files (standard smf 0 and 1)
> if one has the fluidsynth module.

The other more advanced use cases described by Pedro don't belong in Phonon.

Ian
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