Proposal: libunixmm.so (about the Comparison: MAS, GStreamer, NMM)

[Christian Esken]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 23:43, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday 09 September 2004 23:16, Christian Esken wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 21:54, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> Well, uhm, this is the KDE project.  ;-)  Voting simply isn't effective 
> without the assumption that everyone's vote counts and counts the same.  OSS 
> never works that way.  It's always based on a concensus of those doing the 
> work.  A vote wouldn't have any authority; I can't imagine anyone saying, 

I fully agree here.
I just had the impression that nobody is doing the work right now.




> > out some backends. Like doing a hacked up version of KAudioPlayer that uses 
> > MAS or GStreamer as backend.  I'll probably do that myself ... even if half 
> > of the kde-multimedia people will after that throw stones at me :) 
> 
> But we've already done that basically.  That's the whole point.  The interface 

Well, this was not clear for me. On Akademy you talked about KDE bindings for a (now outdated) gstreamer version.

> is already there, implementations for aRts and aKode are already there and 
> I've started on one for GStreamer; there's an empty dir for NMM.

I did not know about any current efforts. Where would I find this stuff and activate it?!? I am pretty clueless at this point of time.

> It really doesn't make sense to get into worrying about the sound server or 
> how we're going to handle /dev/dsp at the moment.  That's a detail that in 
> every case is abstracted away by the backends -- whether we chose one 
> specifically or three it's always still not something we deal with directly.

OK, this is a possible way. You can count me aboard.

Greetings,
   Chris