[clug-talk] aRts/Phonon

[Nick Wiltshire]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:51 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 22:58, Nick Wiltshire wrote:
> > my biggest problem with aRts is that it doesn't play nice with other
> > sound engines - notably that if it is using the device it seems to kidnap
> > it and, for example, I have to restart FF to get flash to have sound. Is
> > this a misconfiguration?
>
> no. it's just the mess that is linux multimedia right now.

Will Phonon help, or add to the frey? :) It sounds like (from my reading) it 
is at least a step in the right direction.