sound support under KDE
Can anybody explain me the mess I feel I am in? There is arts, gstreamer,
xine, mplayer, flac, jack, alsa, and I am sure I forgot something which is
used for sound playing on KDE. I understand that some of these are more
like hardware drivers (ALSA -- although there is alsaplayer) and some more
manipulating more sophisticated high-level stuff (xine, mplayer), but still
there seems to be too much stuff going around. I am currently mostly on
arts/xine with stuff from testing (and now sid with new KDE), but I know
that things are gradually moving towards gstreamer. So I would like to
switch, but I am totally confused about what to do. So here are my
questions:
1) Are they? I mean is arts dead or going to die soon?
2) Control Center's sound system tab is just for arts, right? Is there (is
there going to be) some equivalent for gstreamer? Where to get it?
3) Any other suggestions what is the most simple working set of tools (both
for collection of tracks from my CDs as well as for playing radio streams
over the Internet) with packages from the main Debian repository?
URLs for some documents explaining this mess would be more than welcome as
well.
Thanks in advance,
Matej
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