Amarok

[Patrick Spendrin]

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Chris Browet schrieb:
> Hi All,
> 
> Following up on an amarok forum post (as "koying"), I'm willing to work
> towards making amarok viable on a windows system.
> 
> Amarok is compiled (with MinGW gcc 4.4.0) but I hit a phonon backend
> problem. VLC doesn't seem the way to go, especially if a DS9 backend is
> already existing. However, after compiling from source, the DS9 do not
> produce any sound.
Why do you think that vlc doesn't seem the way to go? Because of a
debugging console that could be disabled easily in the phonon-vlc
sources [1]?

The problem about the ds9 backend is not getting it to work on my
computer or on your computer: it is getting it to work on every
computer. This is not possible by design since computers always differ
in the installation of their filters etc. Since we have no way of
changing stuff in the filters, this is basically outside of our reach -
vlc is very much inside our reach, it is stable and if we really care we
can even make a vlc package easily that can get distributed with KDE.

If you say that we could try to distribute the filters with amarok/KDE -
so who would maintain this? And does it really make sense to maintain
the filters rather than to maintain a stable vlc package?
> 
> I have some Directshow experience, but before digging deep in the
> matter, do someone have a pointer on what is wrong?
> I read somewhere about a simple phonon test program. Does it actually
> exists?
Check the examples subdirectory of phonon itself. There you find a
simple player implementation. This can be stripped down further to test
only if the plugin plays sound.
> 
> Thanks and regards
> - Chris -


regards,
Patrick

[1]:
http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/multimedia/phonon-backends/vlc/vlcloader.cpp#60

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