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Perspectives On KDE Multimedia

Posted by timothy on from the song-and-dance-in-a-good-way dept.

sombragris points out this interview on OfB, excerpting "Open for Business Associate Editor Eduardo Sánchez sits down with Scott Wheeler, creator and lead developer of JuK, and a member of the KDE Multimedia Team, to find out where the KDE multimedia department is headed in general, and concerning a replacement for aRts, more specifically."

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  1. Re:A change by qurk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Arts has improved immensely over the last couple of minor updates though. A year ago, aRts control panel was woeful and it was set up to hog the sound system no matter what. Now it is easy to set up alternate sound systems, actually turn artsd on and off, and the settings are such that now artsd will give up control of the sound server after a second or two. (No more being completely unable to play ut2004 with sound because artsd keep spawning evil demonic children everwhere). Also, half the time it just didn't work. Xmms has a arts plugin and it just recently started working for me. I guess I haven't noticed the latency issues too much, having in general stayed away from artsd sound due to these other issues :)