amaroK audio-player to support NMM
Marco Lohse
mlohse at cs.uni-sb.de
Wed Feb 25 09:11:00 GMT 2004
Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>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.
>
>
that is actually a very good idea. We would be very happy if you could
give us some feedback.
>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 :)
>
>
for pure NMM-related questions, I would suggest to use [nmm-dev] :
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/NMM/Contact/index.html
Have fun, Marco.
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