KDE4 MM, a view from usability and general applicaiton development

[Arnold Krille]

On Monday 06 September 2004 23:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> However, some media apps, especially the sort we are currently missing in
> KDE (think Garage Band =) need access to a full-featured multimedia API.

Afaik, as soon as you will start developing such a realtime recording and 
playing application, you will notice that neither of the discussed 
mediaframeworks are suitable and will soon come to Jack, which is perfect for 
professional uses but not usable for the "simple" things kde needs.
An example is the development of Rosegarden which at first had support for 
aRts as well but soon dropped it as aRts was not fast enough like every other 
frameworked discussed on this list...

My vote:
 - Configurable Backends, backend-choosing done via textfile...
 - Simple API for multimedia (including video, sound, etc)

And please don't dream of doing professional audio (needing low-latency) with 
a framework chosen for complex multimedia.

Back to learning,

Arnold

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