Abstraction layers...
Posted Apr 28, 2006 14:26 UTC (Fri) by
aseigo (guest, #18394)
In reply to:
Abstraction layers... by aleXXX
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Phonon: Multimedia in KDE 4 (KDE.News)
not only is it longevity of the current media frameworks, it's also
portability and easy of use. with kde2 and kde3, if a system did not have
aRts desktop sound was impacted quite harshly. kde4 should work well on
many more systems since the OS integrator/vendor can select the media
stack they wish to supply and kde can be easily adapted to that by
selecting (or writing if it doesn't already exist) the appropriate Phonon
backend.
i also expect to see more applications provide multimedia features with
Phonon since it should provide a simpler API that is more familiar for
those already used to the kde/Qt conventions while ensuring it works
everywhere. right now coding with aRts is a bit trickier than is useful
for casual media additions (think of video clips in presentations as an
example) and isn't guaranteed to work everywhere anyways.
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