[dot] Phonon: Multimedia in KDE 4

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From: Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org>
Dept: make-the-lattice-vibrate
Date: Thursday 27/Apr/2006, @05:21

Phonon: Multimedia in KDE 4
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   After many months of work on the new Multimedia API for KDE 4 it is
time to finally announce Phonon [http://phonon.kde.org/]. Phonon will
provide a task oriented API for multimedia, making it easy for KDE
applications to use media playback and capture functionality (and more)
resulting in application developers being free to concentrate on the
user interface aspects. The number of possibilities to integrate
multimedia into the desktop experience [http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1030]
make Phonon especially interesting.

     Phonon uses exchangeable backends to do the real work which can be
implemented using GStreamer, NMM, Xine, Helix or whatever else you can
come up with. In turn KDE applications do not need to develop media
engine abstractions anymore as Phonon provides it for them.

     The folks from Motama [http://www.motama.com/] have already started
work on a Phonon-NMM backend and we will give a joint presentation at
upcoming LinuxTag this year (also see their announcement)
[http://www.motama.com/press/PR-Phonon-NMM-Linuxtag2006-engl.html]. Meet
us on Saturday, May 6th at 10:00 in Hall 6.2 or later at the KDE booth.

     As there is still a lot of work that need to be done until Phonon
is released with KDE 4.0 it is a great chance to get involved now, for
example doing a Google Summer of Code project
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE%20Google%20SoC%202006%20ideas].


     Phonon is supported by basysKom GmbH [http://www.basyskom.com/],
Motama GmbH [http://www.motama.com/], KDE-NL who are organising a KDE
Multimedia meeting and most importantly the community for providing
feedback & code.