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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: Patch for Kaiman
From:       Stefan Schimanski <1Stein () gmx ! de>
Date:       2000-08-25 7:37:38
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Hi,

Am Thu, 24 Aug 2000 schrieb Antonio Larrosa:
> I've noticed that aRts crashes some times when playing "corrupted"(?)
> files and this makes Kaiman crash too.
> The attached patch makes Kaiman "feel" more stable, as it detects when
> aRts has crashed, try to run it again and re-connect to it. Also, if
> aRts is not running when starting Kaiman, it starts it instead of
> asking the user to do it by himself.

Cool :-)

> There are three things in this patch that I'm not sure to be the best
> solutions. First, I used sometimes soundServer = Arts::Reference(....);
> If the name is right and it's a reference, there's no problem with
> getting it many times, but if that function returns a new copy, then
> the patch is wrong because it will leak memory.

The MCOP pointer are smart pointers that manage reference counts 
automatically, don't they? Overwriting the old reference should destroy the 
object behind it.

> Btw, Martin Vogt has made an excellent plugin for avi/divx support in
> aRts (available from mpeglib.sourceforge.net ), and it works quite well
> (I've already played complete movies with it :) ). As it's too late for
> it to be included into kdemultimedia, I'd like to know if there's any
> way that we can make it more available to users. Should we leave this
> task to the distributions (I don't think so) ? Any idea ?

How complicated is it to install such a plugin? If the user is able to do 
this, it would be nice to tell him about Martin's website when he tries to 
play anything unknown. Or what's about a link in Kaiman's preferences and 
aRts kcm module?

bye
  Schimmi
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