Re: Evolving Music Players - Thread splitting

started a new thread or moved the discussion to e. g. IRC. So, sorry for derailing the discussion... -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Serious bug in the Intel graphics stack

it was justified, people are now comparing the Plasma 5 release to that. I'm not a Plasma developer myself, but considering how much time and effort they have spent to make Plasma 5 stable to avoid getting similar bad press as KDE 4, this is in my opinion extremely unfortunate. Please excu

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

with it, the policy seems to be set in stone in Fedora et al. So I don't see any reason to argue or try to convince anyone. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

decoder apparently isn't available anymore I don't see the relevance of the page. No matter how many times you link it. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

packages? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:26:40PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > it takes away the resposibility It takes away which responsibility? > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Installing_the_Fluendo_MP3_plugin The links there are dead. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mail

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

; when it comes to performance and latency) for a > not-so-free-but-out-of-the-box experience. Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm not exactly sure I follow here. What does Fluendo do that makes it okay for Fedora to ship gstreamer? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

ate VLC into core library, ui > stuff and plugins into different packages. Why? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

lugin. If it finds one, it plays the file. If it > doesn't, it fails to play the file. This is pretty much exactly how libvlc works, as far as I know. One difference is that gstreamer actually contains implementations of patented methods, and apparently VLC doesn't. -- Martin

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

dule for libav/ffmpeg, same as VLC. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

to instead contribute to e. g. VLC to improve their UI. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

milar "business model", not all of them are multimedia related. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

ess why for MPEG-2, DivX, > H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3... are no codec packages needed The VLC build system has functionality to let people download, build and bundle the libraries it depends on, for platforms where those aren't available system-wide (the most prominent would probably b

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

dered illegal by (far too) many laws across the planet (as they > break *cough* "effective" *cough* copyright protection systems - LOL) libdvdcss and libaacs are not a part of VLC either. That said, I have not looked extensively into this, so feel free to point out if anything is wr

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

load without crossing this precarious line, usually VLC has it's own > bundled codec libraries. Please point me to any libraries that VLC bundles, I can't find any. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:53:16PM +1200, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Martin Sandsmark > wrote: > > But what kind of legal risk are we talking about here? > The same one Redhat / Fedora don't like at all, and which SUSE is > working around... B

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

ly straight-forward to just build libdvdread and/or VLC without that dependency. From some simple googling it seems like fedora already ships a libdvdread without de-scrambling enabled, for example. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

er the world, which parts of the world does KDE have mirrors that Videolan doesn't? (And also same question as above.) And in my humble opinion, that some distros cripple themselves shouldn't be our problem... If a distro doesn't provide what users need, users should use another distr

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

hy they wouldn't use VLC, especially if we make a kick-ass qml-based UI for it. I don't see what licensing issues there would be, the core parts of VLC are lgpl 2+, and the rest is gpl2+, pretty much the same as almost everything else in KDE. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

er. That said, I'm not too familiar with Tomahawk, but I suspect it might already cover more of what people want from a pure music player. But someone who is more familiar with it chime in with what it is missing wrt. integration in Plasma, and then we can see how hard those things are to fi

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

th someone established elsewhere (outside of KDE, even). -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players

oul and started using Spotify a lot, so that meant I downprioritized JuK a bit. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Help solving this month's "Bug of the Month"

x it, not just toss it over > the fence and say "it's not us". I agree, with figuring out how it was fixed in Qt5, and backporting it to Qt4. :-) If you believe that keeping the bug in our tracker open will help on the impression to users / tracking it from our side, I agree we

Re: Help solving this month's "Bug of the Month"

nition files. >From reading the latest comments on that bug, and the linked Qt bug report, it seems pretty clear-cut to be a Qt bug that's fixed in Qt5, but not in Qt4? So maybe it should just be marked as an upstream bug? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/l

Re: Cross-platform compatibility of KDE5 libraries

ind out how one > can make QML items appear in the QML designer. You should have asked here first, I write QtCreator plugins in $DAYJOB (using KDevelop, of course). -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: KDE + Firefox integration: restart?

in doing this they would have done so already. I also don't think Firefox is a browser anyone should use from a security perspective, but I understand that security isn't a big priority for many people. But the web has become a very hostile environment, and proper sandboxing is a must, I

Re: [Sonnet] Introduction and request for guidance

for? > I'd appreciate any thoughts/advice on this problem. If anyone else is > working on the sonnet code, do let me know. Also, who's the current > maintainer of the sonnet code base? That would be me! > The bug tracker CC's Zack Rusin, but the repo names Mart

Language detection in Sonnet

and come with any and all feedback. https://projects.kde.org/projects/frameworks/sonnet/repository/revisions/langdet/show/ -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Any use for uri/* and all/* MIME types?

are either of these maintained?). > I have no clue what this uri/ mimetypes are. It's a Microsoft proprietary protocol for multimedia streaming. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Nepomuk in 4.13 and beyond

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:09:02PM +0100, François K. wrote: > I'm sorry to short-circuit the thread. I deleted Vishesh's original email by > mistake... You can read it here: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=138684571516431&w=2 It answers many of your question

Re: Send a custom key sequence to konsole

hin seems to do this for its integrated KPart, maybe look into how it does it? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Please upload articles for automatic Language/Layout Switching

ust want a simple n-gram algorithm, there's several ready-made alternatives, like this one from Chromium: https://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector/ -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Please upload articles for automatic Language/Layout Switching

tarted instead working on Frameworkizing Sonnet. Then I started on implementing another algorithm that should work better for shorter text fragments and mixed-language texts. Details of the algorithm are available in this paper: http://folk.ntnu.no/sandsmar/langdetect.pdf -- Martin Sandsmark >

Re: Saying Hello

art of it (and thereby their protocol for communicating with the desktop) would be a good idea. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: invalid SDL application's icon in KDE

where the source lives, so I CC'ed Eike explicitly to this mail. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: invalid SDL application's icon in KDE

think Eike is currently about to merge his rewritten libtaskbar, maybe test with that first? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

so we don't have to deal with this bullshit in the future. -- Martin Sandsmark KDE >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

g it. Free software multimedia has come so far, only for some bull-headed distributions to try to fuck it up again. Trying to accommodate obviously faulty processes in downstream is not something we should encourage, IMHO. Actively working to limit our freedoms is a Bad Thing™. -- Martin Sandsmark

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

On Monday 8. October 2012 17.25.49 Adrian Schröter wrote: > I think this may also harm the reputation of the KDE project as an free > project. Why? ffmpeg is freely licensed. -- Martin Sandsmark KDE >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

em.» http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5aeb5dae-6d27-11e0-83fe-00144feab49a.html Please stop stop trying to ruin desktop Linux with this retarded hypocrisy. We finally have native support for a majority of multimedia formats and codecs, and then you come with this retarded legal FUD and pull it out aga

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

dia. And ffmpeg is the best library to do this, it supports pretty much every video format out there, and is actively developed. -- Martin Sandsmark KDE >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

rce their patents against anyone using ffmpeg? On the other hand, people have been sued for using the Linux kernel because of software patents. Please stop spreading FUD. -- Martin Sandsmark KDE >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: Collecting Video Samples for Video Metadata Tests

hat Exiv2 > will be able to read the metadata from the widest possible set of files. Just in case you don't already know, there's quite a set of sample videos available at http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/ which might be interesting to test with. Good luck with the implementation! :-) --

Re: GSoC 2011: Universal Media Controller

(MPRIS is the common DBUS API for controlling media players) mediaplayer controller on the locked screen? -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<