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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wade Olson</b> <<a href="mailto:wade@corefunction.com">wade@corefunction.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 5/29/06, Stefan Monov <<a href="mailto:logixoul@gmail.com">logixoul@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>
<br>> I'm planning to write an application called Katch, used to (manually) write<br>> down text that's "dictated" to you from an audio file. Since I use xine in<br>> my day-to-day private multimedia activity, I was at first inclined to use it
<br>> for Katch. However:<br>> 1. What if the user is in a country where Helix is needed to play MP3s<br>> legally?<br>> 2. What if xine turned up to be badly KDE-integrated or whatnot?<br>> 3. What if, when Phonon came in an year, I'll be forced to (non-trivially)
<br>> rewrite all my code to get it Phononized?<br>><br><br>Have you reviewed the Phonon API?<br><br><a href="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/phonon/html/index.html">http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/phonon/html/index.html
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<div>I did now. I'm a bit lost - is it at all possible to use effects like speed control with the current Phonon? If not, then it's quite certainly unfit :( .</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Or talked to anyone involved with Phonon?</blockquote>
<div>Nope. Do I need to?</div>
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<div>The API should be somewhat<br>stable</div></blockquote>
<div>Ah, I didn't expect that.<br> </div>
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<div>so I don't know that you need to wait a year as you mention in<br>point 3 above.</div></blockquote>
<div>Does going Phonon mean downloading and compiling all of KDE SVN at the moment? If yes, wouldn't that be troublesome -- I heard it barely compiles, if at all.<br> </div>
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<div>Unless you're concerned with distribution right now.</div></blockquote>
<div>Well I'd rather not wait (much) if possible - better to let the world use Katch right now, isn't it? Besides, my mother needs such an app (that's her job) and she uses KDE 3.5.2 - no way to use a Phonon Katch for her, is there?
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<div>However, I haven't formed a strong opinion on that yet.</div>
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<div>It seems that if you're serious</div></blockquote>(kind of)<br>
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<div>you're a great candidate for Phonon<br>(brand-new app, possible multiple backends, etc)</div></blockquote>Yup, I thought so.<br>
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<div>Further, by at least<br>talking with Phonon folks, you may be helpful to them in learning<br>about user requirements.</div></blockquote>
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<div>I guess I would. I'm enthusiastic about it, only still have scarce time. That's changing in a month's time.</div><br> </div>