New library and aRts-plugin

[Neil Stevens]

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On Sunday May 30, 2004 5:28 am, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2004 14:14 schrieb Allan Sandfeld Jensen:
> > After having hinted it in a bug-report that I am working on replacing
> > mpeglib, I better introduce it properly on kde-multimedia and ask for
> > permission to add it to the feature-list.
> >
> > The project name is currently akodelib and will be imported to
> > kdenonbeta in a weeks time or so.
> > [...]
> > Since feature-plan freeze is two days away, I plan to commit the
> > attached patch to the feature-plan tomorrow, unless anyone has serious
> > objections about the library's inclusion in kde-multimedia.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to cram in a mpeglib replacement shortly
> before a release. Also what about video playback? Not everbody has/wants
> xine. Actually I don't even see a need to replace mpeglib, it works
> quite well. All the problems I have come from arts and its limited api
> (I want to gather more info about the currently played data,
> unfortunately playobject don't allow much in that area).

Also, over the last few years a lot of work has gone into trying to make 
mpeglib work portably.  Mpeglib shouldn't be removed until its replacement 
is proven on many platforms.

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Neil Stevens - neil at hakubi.us
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
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                                                 -- Albert Einstein(?)
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