Awesome Multimedia Technology Heads for KDE

An anonymous reader writes "Linux Devices is reporting on a cool new multimedia technology that's slated to be incuded in KDE 4.0. The two key components are Phonon, a central hardware configuration database said to free multimedia applications from the need to configure hardware, and NMM (network-integrated multimedia middleware), a distributed multimedia architecture whereby multimedia content can be readily shared among networked devices and even 'handed over' from one device to another. Potential NMM applications include networked multimedia home entertainment systems, distributed and parallel media processing applications, distributed streaming servers and services, communication and control systems, and large-scale multimedia installations such as video walls, according to the article, which includes some interesting photos and diagrams. Phonon and NMM will be demonstrated at LinuxTag, May 3-6, in Wiesbaden, Germany."

Sure beats ARTS, anyway

[sinewalker]

Seriously, I'm hanging out for 4.0...

At least it's not VIIV....

[ShyGuy91284]

I saw that headline and thought it would be another Intel VIIV thing.....

Re:"KDE 4.0: Now even more bloated!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like you're installing a KDE meta-package that has been designed, by your distro, to pull in all of those unnecessary packages. KDE itself can run with just a few packages - kdebase, kdelibs, and a handful of others. If you want to blame someone for this, blame your distro's packagers :)

4.0 goodness

[Lucractius]

cant wait to get the little widgets on my desktop, and all the multimedia, and its gonna be so much better to look at than vistas Aeroglass crap, and all the games... oh...

****

guess its still not THAT great afterall... come on someone, put up a hundred grand prize for the first "big name title" (some criteria to exclude stuff already on linux, and crap like madden from being eligable) to provide a native Linux version. or something... pretty KDE is nice and everything but... i miss my games :(

Re:4.0 goodness

[Lucractius]

ill be waiting for the 4.0 RC 1 so i can help get rid of the bugs :)

Re:Sure beats ARTS, anyway

[tetabiate]

There is a wrapper for non-KDE applications called artsdsp to reroute the audio device to artsd.

Re:"KDE 4.0: Now even more bloated!"

[mu22le]

As a premise: I installed only kdebase (the bare minimum) on my system (just to give it a try)...

"This metapackage includes the core official modules released with KDE. This includes just the basic desktop (browser, file manager, text editor, control center, panel, etc.) and important libraries and data, in addition to the aRts soundserver."

now excuse me if I call a package that absolutely needs
  - A browser
  - A control center
  - A system panel
  - A file manager
  - A text editor ...

a bit bloated.

In my perfect world kde would be split up in separate packages so that I can have the window manager and the taskbar, configure them _without_ the control panel, have mozilla as a browser if I wish, and use no file manager at all (at the cost of not having icons on my desktop, of course).

I will also rejoice the day someone cleans the application dependencies (and, yes, I know this is not strictly a task for the kde team) so that any k* app stops depending on 40 different (k)libraries (no you will never make me believe a fraking xterm clone needs all of them).

Anyway this is why _I_ do not use kde, this does not mean it is crap or that _you_ can't use it.

I use E17 instead, the enlightenment package contains just the bare minimum (a window manager + a few widgets) and I can install the rest (the various epplets, epplications and so on) only if I want to.
 

Reversal of Fortune

[Anonymous Coward]

Those that do not understand {Directshow, UPnP} are doomed to reinvent them.. Poorly.

Re:Reversal of Fortune

[xerxesdaphat]

UPnP was invented poorly...