[Kde-games-devel] Sound in kdegames?

[Eugene Trounev]

According to Phonon (ex)developer that's what he's offered TT to begin with (a 
complete multimedia solution), but they don't want that. The only purpose of 
Phonon is to abstract the sound output well enough for it to be easily 
accessible on Windows/Mac/Unix. They are not interested in a complete 
multimedia solution. Their main reason for this - they are not a multimedia 
company (no games, and such), and the most apps only need a very basic sound 
support.
As for the development continuation - TT will be maintaining the code for now, 
until a new dev is found/old one returns (maybe).

On Sunday 17 August 2008 11:54:55 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> Am Sonntag 17 August 2008 17:05:50 schrieb 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;
>
> Doesn't TT/N have an interest in further Phonon development?
>
> > 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.
>
> Again, what is the position of TT/N in this point? From my point of view,
> it may perfectly be possible that they are interested in developing an own
> advanced audio API.
>
> > So, there we have it folks :/ Either we forget about the sound in
> > kdegames, or we will have to develop our own multimedia solution.
>
> OpenAL is available on all of our target platforms, so it could become an
> optional dependency for the kdegames module. A C++ abstraction layer to the
> OpenAL API in libkdegames might be useful then.
>
> Stefan

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