A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle [LWN.net]

A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

Posted Sep 25, 2008 15:24 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536)
In reply to: A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle by kev009
Parent article: A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

Apparently Phonon isn't yet in a fully working state.

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A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

Posted Sep 25, 2008 19:47 UTC (Thu) by bangert (subscriber, #28342) [Link] (2 responses)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon_(KDE)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)

Phonon has been shipped with Qt 4.4 - release date May 6, 2008.

> Apparently Phonon isn't yet in a fully working state.

What makes you think so?

A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

Posted Sep 26, 2008 7:05 UTC (Fri) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]

Some comments in the blog article, as well as the Wikipedia page describing Phonon you just linked to: look at the list of features, they all start with "Phonon will ...".

A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle

Posted Sep 26, 2008 10:48 UTC (Fri) by macson_g (guest, #12717) [Link]

Phonon shipped with Qt-4.4 is still in experimental state. This is the first time they included externally developed open source code into they codebase, and apparently they followed the "release early" principle.

From Qt-4.4 documentation:
> Phonon and its Qt backends, though fully functional for multimedia playback, are still under development.