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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. A change by MarkRose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's nice to see that KDE is moving away from aRts. While aRts was cool for allowing multiple sound sources to be played at once, it is quite a resource hog and has problems with latency. I know I am constantly stopping and starting aRts when I watch movies because the latency is too noticeable (or it drops too many frames with low-latency). I wish there were a more definite answer and a right-here, right-now solution, however.

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  2. Re:In general by Kick+the+Donkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the question you should be asking yourself is: "Why doesn't GNOME have a POV-Ray front end?"

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  3. And GNOME too by BRSloth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting, the GNOME folks are also rethinking changing the old eSound to something else.

    Can I be the first one to say that "this will be the year of audio on Linux Desktop?" :)

  4. Arts is truly remarkable system by rzei · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Arts is a truly remarkable system, at least scalability-wise, as here it is able to produce skips and strange decoding errors no matter how modern x86 runs it!

    On my old Pentium-II 333MHz 384MB a 5-10% CPU use while playing mp3's was almost a great achievement, but boy, was I surprised when I got a new system a year ago (Athlon XP 1800+, KT400 based), arts was still able to use those 5-10% CPU and producing all the same kind of errors and skips..

    I love arts.

    To be serious for a moment.. I'm not sure whether a Microsoft like approach to handling multimedia is right. It sounds good on paper, but would it be possible to accomplish, without overcomplicating things (again)?