Hi: Regarding VSXu Applet

[Dinesh]

Hi,

thanks for the immediate reply.

2011/2/21 Daniel Dewald <Daniel.Dewald at time-shift.de>

> Hi,
>
> Take my good advice and don't put any more work into this. Phonon's Audio
> Data
> Output is not working in 90% of all phonon Backends and from what I've
> heard
> so far will not be working in any future. I've already designed and
> implemented a working OpenGL Amarok applet and realized a spectrum analyzer
> with it. After that I was waiting for the backends to finally get the Data
> Output working and stabilized.. they won't. I tried begging and complaining
> and even tried to force the issue.. nobody is interested in this kind of
> work.
> Without the phonon audio data output all the work becomes meaningless. You
> should have talked with the vsxu maintainer (or the Amarok devs) and he
> would've told you.


Markey said that the Phonon issues have been fixed in the VLC backend, but
don't exactly know if it is the same issues that have blocked your work.


> Also vsxu is currently not yet in a state where it is
> likely to be put into any distribution. As long as its not distributed
> properly an vsxu applet is not likely to be placed into the official
> Amarok

trunk (This however is a problem that could be solved in a small time
> window).


I think this can be fixed too.. isnt it?


> Sorry to kill the dreams but I've already put a tremendous amount of work
> into
> this and all for nothing.


This really can't be an option for me because I ve already submitted this
for my course project, and so dropping this out means a really hard time for
me :(

So may be if you can enlist the issues, then I can try fixing them one by
one..


> If you want to display any other (non audio data
> related) OpenGL stuff just give me a call. My applet might need some
> over-howl
> but was working the last time I tried it. However it uses quite some hacks
> because the Amarok context area does not support OpenGL pre se (because its
> not an opengl applet area).


You mean rendering it onto a label right? I was looking onto it, and was
actually looking for other alternatives to this. Also was searching for
something that doesn't use a timer to refresh the QGLWidget... (something
like vsync, but apparently we don't have such an option - even the Gluon
guys use a timer)

Cheers,
Dinesh


>
> Greetz
>
> Daniel
>
> On Sunday 20 February 2011 22:14:24 you wrote:
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > I am currently working on implementing Visualizations in amarok using
> VSXu
> > , and found your work (when searching on adding a QGLWidget into a
> > Plasma-Applet).... So was wondering why exactly is your visualization
> > applet not in Amarok yet...What I was doing was getting everything from
> > VSXu rendered onto a QGLWidget, and was about to place it in the Context
> > Applet......and what you did was also the same stuff, so  I was wondering
> > if your work is incomplete but is in the right direction, I can directly
> > build on it right?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dinesh
>
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