dot.kde.org: KDE/aRts Video Roadmap Meeting Results

The aRts/KDE Video Roadmap Meeting ending up having a
fairly large turnout, peaking at 26 participants on the IRC
channel. There was so much turnout, in fact, that participants
could not agree on a single strategy for video development in aRts
and KDE. Some wished for a successor to mpeglib, something that
would work within aRts but with the optimizations necessary for
high framerate video. Others saw no need for aRts itself to be
extended for video, and proposed using one of two external video
systems. Fortunately, there were volunteers willing to code for
each approach, so development will commence on multiple paths
concurrently. In time, when the results are mature and ready for
use by KDE, one will be chosen to be part of the KDE Multimedia
standard. Read on to find out more about the teams and the code
already produced.

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