[PyKDE] KDE question: multimedia

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 2:44 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 9:30 am, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> > On November 21, 2002 01:46 pm, fredrik danerklint wrote:
> > > > Wow. After some more poking around, I've found python wrappers for
> > > > both MP3 and Ogg files (my primary interest). They both interface
> > > > happily with OSS too. Hmmm :)
> > >
> > > Tell me when you have found a wrapper for the alsa-project.
> >
> > You may want to look into the pyao package. It wraps libao which supports
> > multiple sound backends including OSS, Arts, ESD and ALSA. pyvorbis uses
> > pyao.
>
> As does pymad. It's actually quite trivial to write a decent Ogg/MP3 with
> pymad and pyvorbis :)

"Ogg/MP3 player". "player". Not the music. I think it'd actually be quite 
difficult to write an MP3 or Ogg with pymad or pyvorbis. Well, the latter 
will actually encode a song if you wrote one. But it'd still be hard to 
write. Hurm. Less beer for Richard during lunch breaks, I think...