Phonon-4.4.4

Introduction to Phonon

Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE4. It replaces the old aRts, that is not more supported by KDE. It supports backends like xine, GStreamer etc.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.7 platform.

Package Information

Phonon Dependencies

Required

Qt-4.8.0, GLib-2.30.1

Recommended

Optional

PulseAudio-0.9.23

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon

Installation of Phonon

Make sure that Qt-4.8.0 is compiled without the bundled Phonon library. This package provides a better implementation.

Install Phonon by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd build

Prepare the package for compilation:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$QT4DIR \
      .. &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Program: none
Installed Libraries: libphonon.so, libphononexperimental.so
Installed Directory: none

Last updated on 2011-12-13 00:02:58 +0000