aRts needs to be replaced (was Re: Disabling aRts in knotify)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 22:22, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>
> I think we need a simple KDE api:
> "play this file now"
> "start/pause/stop playing this file"
> And then we need the ability to play the sound via OSS, ALSA, arts, MAS/
> gstreamer.

Yes yes yes. Sound play should be

- raw sound card driver (OSS, ALSA), which would be good enough for 90% of the 
cases, since most cards come with an internal mixer and support multiple 
opening of their /dev/dsp

- some other software backend just for the sake of it

Forget features like network transparency, sound effects (and plugins in 
general), and real-time playing. These are all either useless in practice or 
not worth the hassle.

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				Guillaume
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