Sound works for me in KDE, so there's no pressing problem that needs solving. However, my understanding of how and why things work is rather limited. KDE apps use phonon for sound, which uses a xine-based backend to output sound to ALSA.
Apparently, apart from the xine-backend, there are others (gstreamer, pulseaudio?). I have no idea what reasons there might be for choosing one over the others. Also, since I've become aware of phonon, I've been wondering whether it's only relevant for applications that have been developed with it explicitly in mind, or, say, whether there's a way to output sound from any app to a virtual phonon device for Notifications, Music, or Communication and have phonon route it to the real device selected in the Sound and Video Configuration. As for the Debian-connection: Is there any preferred way for audio on Debian systems? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
