Phonon - Multimedia API for KDE
4:4.2.80+svn887720a-0ubuntu3
Overview | Application Example | Backend Development
Phonon is the Multimedia API for KDE. You should evaluate whether Phonon supplies all you need before looking at frameworks like GStreamer, NMM or Helix. The range of applications goes from full featured media players and capture applications to voice/video chats.
In Phonon there are three main concepts: MediaObjects, Paths and Outputs. The MediaObjects control the playback/capture and provide the media data. MediaObjects can be connected to Outputs using Path objects which also allow the insertion of Effect objects between MediaObject and Output.
If you want to write a new backend for Phonon this is for you:
- Authors:
- Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
Matthias Kretz <
kretz@kde.org>
metapackage for Phonon multimedia frameworkPhonon is the Qt4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content. . This metapackage ensures a working Phonon (libphonon4 and a backend).