On 29/09/2007, Stefan Teleman <Stefan.Teleman at sun.com> wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > At last check, he was still working on libquicktime for 3.5.7 with the > > logic being that all of the dependencies were shared between 3.5.7 and > > 4.0. > > Actually, speaking of libquicktime: there's a nice little project (i think) > for > someone who wants to get involved with our KDE Project: > > libquicktime comes with a nice qtplayer -- a simple X Application, which can > play QuickTime(TM) movies. > > libquicktime decodes both audio and video frames. By default, the libquicktime > player provides audio transport bindings for ALSA and OSS only. > > It would be very nice if we could write an OpenAL libquicktime binding. The > reason i'm suggesting OpenAL is: OpenAL supports native Solaris audio > (/dev/audio), and it is fairly easy to use. And there won't be any license > conflicts between OpenAL and libquicktime. > > Both libquicktime and OpenAL work fine on Solaris with Studio 12. However, if > you don't have OSS installed, there's no audio playback when you use the > quicktime player. > > If anyone is interested, please speak up. I can checkin OpenAL and > libquicktime > at CVSDude, and we can take it from there. I am quite certain that the > OpenAL > bindings for libquicktime will be accepted upstream.
I'm game for that. I'll give it a try, though my experience with audio is limited to SDL and a bit of OpenAL hacking in the long ago past. Just give me some general direction and I'll try my best... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
