knotify and libcanberra Re: KDE Sound and Multimedia Plan

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Friday 03 December 2010, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 11:42 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > I should stress that libcanberra wasn't designed as a game library. It
> > may well work fine for some games which have a relatively small number
> > of "bings" and "beep" type noises, but I don't know how well it would
> > scale beyond that (it work very well or there may be limitations, but
> > there should be no problem combining e.g. phonon for background music
> > and using a few samples cached in libcanberra for quick playback.
> >
> > It would be worth doing a few tentative tests in this area before
> > deciding on it however.
> >
> > Col
> Maybe an openAL backend? or maybe the game needs are so specific that 
> we'll have to cook another solution for them probably based on openAL 
> (or use openAL directly and encourage it usage).

Do you mean a Phonon backend implemented using openAL? If this is the idea, the problem is that currently Phonon doesn't allow several backends running at once. It follows the "one backend must fit all use cases" paradigm, similar to the former situation of Solid, that has been recently overcome. So the openAL backend would need to provide support to all media classes and use cases.

I would like to have specialized Phonon backends, concurrently loaded, being able to choose which one to use by application category (mp3 players, games, desktop effects, ...) or by media class (audio, video, MIDI, ...)

Regards,
Pedro