MAS in KDE

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday March 04, 2003 11:49, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:12:15PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > We already know we are going to choose a system.  We will already have
> > to wrap it.  CSL gives us nothing beyond that.
>
> And preferably I am working on choosing an open, interoperable solution
> for sound input/output in KDE3.2 ; CSL was just a suggestion I made, and
> PortAudio might be an even better suggestion.
>
> Isn't that choosing a system? I think we should not try to choose a
> complete media framework (such as GStreamer) and try to solve everything
> with it.

But there already demonstrated needs for a complete framework throughout 
KDE and kdemultimedia.  I need video in Kaboodle.  Charles Samuels filters 
and the equalizer in Noatun.  Benjamin Meyer needs audio compression in 
KAudioCreator.

Going with some featureless sound server will not meet these needs.  Even 
if we use one of them, we still have to put one of those frameworks on top 
of it.

> If we need something (like: input/output of sound streams), we should
> choose something that fills this need, or implement something that does.
> I have identified a need for input/output of sound streams (see CSL
> paper), and I am trying to choose something that fills this need for
> KDE.
>
> If I am doing something that makes no sense to you, let me know. ;)

You're making sense to me just fine.  I just wish you could see that KDE 
needs more than just basic input and output of sound streams.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
 -- Gandhi
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