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qdeeds
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 Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:57 pm Post subject: ARTS - point of, configuration of |
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Hello. I was wondering if anyone could shed some insight on why
KDE needs it's own sound server. Does it supply needed surround
sound compatability, or make possible the playing of 2 wavs at the
same time? I am also wondering how is it possible to explicitely
configure the artsd daemon.
Editing this to remove annoying ascii  Thank you guys for your kind suggestions.
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eean
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The point of arts is to allow two programs to play sounds at the same time, as well as to make it easy for any program to have sound capabilities without any hassle on the programmers part. Any KDE program, for instance, can use an OGG file just as easily as a .wav file. Another benefit is that arts can run at realtime priority and give you more responsive sound when your system is under load.
It can be configured under KControl->Sound & Multimedia->Sound Server. With the program artscontrol you can change its volume.
People do seem to have problems with arts, but outside of XMMS (I now use amaroK for MP3 playing, its shaping up to be a great player) I never have any problems. There's some talk of in future versions of KDE replacing arts with gstreamer. |
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lunarg
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| eean wrote: | | Another benefit is that arts can run at realtime priority and give you more responsive sound when your system is under load. |
I'm trying to get arts to run at realtime priority, but so far no luck. I've set artsd and artswrapper to suid root, but then I get permission problems with a temp dir. Is there a way to circumvent it?
See the thread: Suid-ing arts.... permission problems for more info on my problem.
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