amaroK audio-player to support NMM
Mark Kretschmann
markey at web.de
Tue Feb 24 15:20:49 GMT 2004
Hi,
the amaroK development-team plans to add NMM support to their player soon. We
are expecting that this process will be rather painless, since we have
rewritten our audio interface recently to make it framework independent. We
designed it specifically this way to provide a test-platform for different
multimedia frameworks. Currently we are supporting aRts and GStreamer. Now we
are looking forward to put NMM to a first practical test in a KDE
environment.
While basic audio functionality will probably be implemented easily, it will
be interesting to see how well NMM maps to amaroK's more advanced features,
like visualizations, audio effects and crossfading. With GStreamer so far
this proved to be more difficult than expected, unfortunately. NMM support
was planned right from the start when we designed the new audio engine, but
we had quite some trouble getting it compiled and installed properly in the
first place, which slowed down the plan somewhat ;)
Hopefully NMM has matured a bit in the meantime, and we'll be able to consult
NMM's developers a bit in case of implementation difficulties. Btw, great to
see you on the list :)
Mark.
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