VLC engine for amarok

[Seb Ruiz]

On 30/01/07, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> Well we're just about to shelf Amarok 1.4 as far as feature
> enhancements are concerned and stick it in its own branch. Amarok 2.0
> development is about to start.
>
> What form Amarok sound engine will take in 2.0 (whether to make it a
> separate process, licensing, how much coupling with Phonon) is kind of
> up in the air at this point, so its also probably premature to think
> about adding a new engine for 2.0. That said, your welcome to help us
> figure all this out. :)
>
> As far as the code you have, sticking it on sourceforge or google code
> hosting is probably a good idea. I just request that in the title to
> not have the first word be 'Amarok' (so something like "VLC Engine for
> Amarok", not "Amarok VLC Engine") and to make it clear that its not
> part of the Amarok project.

I don't see any problem with committing it to a branch in the KDE
repository. It makes sense to keep it all grouped together.


>
> On 1/29/07, Éric ALBER <eric.alber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've written an engine for Amarok in order to use the VLC media playback
> > library (www.videolan.org) as backend for your excellent audio player.
> > There are still several bugs with the equalizer and the scope, but music
> > playback works well :)
> > VLC can be configured with the following file :
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/vlc-config.xml
> >
> > I've written this plugin because I wanted to use Amarok to play music on my
> > loudspeakers connected to my freebox (a set-top-box provided by the french
> > ISP free.fr). The freebox accepts mpeg audio streamed over http with VLC, so
> > I just had to connect all this stuff together with an engine for amarok.
> > I think this cas be adapted to other set-top-boxes.
> > It works with VLC v.0.8.6. If you are using another version of vlc, change
> > the MODULE_SYMBOL define in VlcDefines.h. For instance, with Ubuntu edgy,
> > change it from 0_8_6 to 0_8_5 as edgy uses an svn version of VLC which is
> > still internally tagged as a 0.8.5 .
> >
> > Here are the sources to add to the engine directory of the amarok source
> > tree:
> > http://eric.alber.free.fr/public/amarok-vlc-engine_0.2.tar.gz
> > And there is the files to place in your ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok in order to
> > use Amarok with a freebox:
> > http://eric.alber.free.fr/public/amarok-vlc-settings.tar.gz
> > Tell me if you encounter any problem.
> >
> > I just would like to know if you want to put this code in the amarok svn, if
> > not, I think I'll put it on sourceforge in case it would be useful to
> > someone.
> >
> > And finally, I just want to thank all the amarok team for the great work you
> > are doing :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eric ALBER
> >
> >
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