[Kde-windows] PHONON on win32
Ralf Habacker
ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Thu Apr 27 22:57:15 BST 2006
Jarosław Staniek schrieb:
> Phonon is the Multimedia API for KDE.
>
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdelibs-apidocs/phonon/html/index.html
>
> I have no time to play with it as much as I want even on Linux, but for win32
> I was thinking about reusing foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) as a
> audio backend.
As far as I can see looks foobar2000 like a regular media player like
realplayer or windows media player. I think KDE needs a backend audio
library. Could this be splitted in foobar200 from the gui ?
>
> Then at least audio will be available quickly with most
> expected features.
>
> Excuse me if such proposal is already known.
>
> I guess it's important to touch this before the PHONON API is stabilized, so
> possible portability problems can be identifies. If you are interested in this
> topic or if you know anybody that may want to be involved, please answer.
>
> Having even a small part of PHONON API supported on win32 will increase
> quality and appearance of the API as we will be able to avoid ugly #ifdefs
> even for multimedia-related code.
>
>
Ralf
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