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Subject:    [kc-kde] [SUMMARY] PhotoCD IOSlave
From:       "Peter Rockai (mornfall)" <mornfall () logisys ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2003-11-07 13:06:28
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Summary of thread "PhotoCD KIO-Slave" on kde-devel.
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<section
	title="PhotoCD IOSlave"
	subject="PhotoCD KIO-Slave"
	posts="14"
	startdate="30 October 2003 09:53:23"
	enddate="05 November 2003 14:34:32">
	
	<topic>IOSlave</topic>

<mention>Bernd Lachner</mention>
<mention>Waldo Bastian</mention>
<mention>Dirk Schoenberger</mention>

<p>Bernd Lachner announced he wrote a PhotoCD IOSlave, much in spirit of the
	AudioCD one.</p>

<quote who="Bernd Lachner">

	<p>You can find the first version of this PhotoCD KIO-Slave under: <a
			href="http://www.lachner-net.de/Temp/photocd.tar.gz">http://www.lachner-net.de/Temp/photocd.tar.gz</a></p>


	<p>The PhotoCD KIO-Slave uses libpcd (<a
			href="http://bytesex.org/libpcd.html">http://bytesex.org/libpcd.html</a>)
		to decode the PCD files. If you want to use/compile the PhotoCD
		KIO-Slave, this library must be installed on your system.</p>

	<p>Maybe there is interest to add this KIO-Slave to the KDE Multimedia
		package?  If yes, I will clean up the code a little and maybe I add
		some features in the future (Parameter for the JPEG quality in the
		URL, or a KControl center modul for this parameter). If not, I think I
		don't do anything at this slave in the next time, because for my
		personal use it is good enough.</p>

	<p> If there is interest to add the slave to the KDE Multimedia package,
		someone should help me to add it to the cvs.</p>

	<p>Using the PhotoCD KIO-Slave:
		<ul>
			<li>It works in similar way as the AudioCD KIO-Slave.</li>
			<li>Mount the PhotoCD. (Description of PhotoCD, see below).</li>
			<li>Enter the URL as follows, for example, in konqueror:
				photocd:/&lt;CD mount point&gt; (e.g.
				photocd:/media/cdrom/).</li>
			<li>Now you shoud see two directories: jpeg and png.</li>
			<li>If you click on one of the directories you should see the resolution
				directories: 192x128, 384x256, 768x512, 1536x1024,
				3072x2048</li>
			<li>Inside of any of this resolution directories you hopefully ;-)
				should see the picture files in the format and resolution you have "chosen"
				before.</li></ul></p></quote>

<p>Waldo Bastian promptly reacted, suggesting to Bernd to obtain CVS account
	(pointing him to instructions at developers' website) and maintain photocd
	ioslave in kdenonbeta, while KDE is in freeze, moving it in place for KDE
	3.3.</p>

<p>Soon afterwards, some confusion arose, regarding usefulness of the ioslave
	and appropriateness of KImageIO plugin as a replacement. Bernd clarified
	that the ioslave is not concerned with individual PCD files (which are in
	fact image files, only containing multiple resolutions of the same image
	and, as Dirk Schoenberger pointed out, possible candidate for KImageIO
	plugin), but with the PhotoCD as a whole. In another e-mail someone
	suggested using kdegraphics instead of kdemultimedia (and she had a point
	in my opinion).</p>

</section>



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