Sound framework

[Christian Esken]

Am Montag, 4. April 2005 18:20 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not doing much multimedia development, but I maintain a small game for 
> KDE, which requires loopable, pitchable sound samples, and hence requires a 
> little more than the high-level interfaces to playing sounds.
> Currently I am once again looking into possibilities to rework the sound code 
> in this game, but at the moment, I'm a little lost trying to figure out, what 
> to look at. From what I gather, it seems like KDE4 will not rely on arts. But 
> I have not been able to figure out, whether a different sound architecture 
> has already been decided on, or whether there will even be _one_ architecture 

No, there is no decision yet.

> that KDE applications will use for sound output (gstreamer seems to be a 
> candidate, but I can't seem to find anything definite). Further, 
> multimedia.kde.org still mentions arts as the base of KDE sound, with the 
> links to arts and documentation broken by now.

Arts is still the base of KDE sound (as of KDE3.4), but applications are slowly moving away.

Actually I don't know why the ARTS documentation is offline. Anybody else ??!
If the documentation does not comeback, the ARTS link on http://www.kde.org/areas/multimedia/ should be changed from http://www.arts-project.org/doc/manual/ to http://www.arts-project.org/ . Is ther somenbody who can do this?



> So what exactly is the state of discussion, which path will KDE sound go in 
> the mid/long term? Could you point me to the relevant threads and maybe also 
> update the information on multimedia.kde.org?

Please look for the following threads to get a start:

summary of the aKademy meetings

KDE4 MM, a view from usability and general applicaiton development

survey: KDE Multimedia API (or framework)

multimedia.kde.org won't be updated as there is no consensus or fully-working code yet. You need to be patient here.


Chris

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