[dot] Phonon and the future of KDE multimedia

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: meesa-do-not-know
Date: Thursday 11/May/2006, @09:25

Phonon and the future of KDE multimedia
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   Linux.com is running a very informative article
[http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/05/1540250] on Phonon
[http://phonon.kde.org], the new multimedia layer for KDE 4. It explains
the rise and fall of Phonon's predecessor aRts and explains the ups and
downs of an audio abstraction layer. The article also elaborates on use
cases and provides some example code. The Phonon website itself provides
more code examples and documentation for using the Phonon API
[http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1022] and for writing a backend
[http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1024]. In other news, Tim Beaulen is working
on a xine backend
[http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/kde4/playground/multimedia/phonon-xine/]
for Phonon.