[Kde-games-devel] Sound in kdegames?

[Eugene Trounev]

Ohne of the goals of this aKademy was to meet Phonon development team and to 
discuss the state of sound in KDE. For that reason me and Luciano have 
attended Phonon BoF session along with Amarok. 
The result was as follows:
1) the Phonon developer has announced that he is stepping down for personal 
reasons; meaning there will not be any active development for now;
2) we asked him directly about the features that we need from Phonon, and he 
replied that Phonon is not a multimedia architecture we need. It's just an 
abstraction layer between various multimedia architectures (XINE, Pulse Audio, 
etc.) and KDE apps. It can not do mixing, channel separation, or effects. He 
then recommended OpenAL as a possible solution.

So, there we have it folks :/ Either we forget about the sound in kdegames, or 
we will have to develop our own multimedia solution.

On Sunday 17 August 2008 10:21:19 Kleag wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Shouldn't we trust Phonon developers to make it work as needed in future
> release ? I don't know their agenda, but it was presented as a Pillar of
> KDE. So, it should progress I suppose. If this is true, we should probably
> not loose energy in developing another solution.
>
> Or am I wrong ?
>
> Gaël
>
> On Sunday 17 August 2008 15:35:36 sacha wrote:
> > So, wich kind of sound api in Kdegames, can we use ?
> >
> > - Phonon : no work correctly actually.. And cannot mix sound! It's
> > not for games!
> >
> > - SDL - mixer : Work correctly for games. But it need SDL lib...
> >
> > - FMod : Easy to use, very usefull for games! The best for me... but
> > not Open. :( :( :(
> >
> > - OpenAL : Work nice with openGL, but difficult to use. ?
> >
> > I think OpenAL is the best way for play and mix many sound in
> > kdegames. Maybe , we need to create a library which use
> > Qt/openGL/openAL. ?
> >
> > DrIDK
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