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Welcome to Simone Giustetti's wiki pages.

Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdemultimedia Italiano]

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== TDEMULTIMEDIA ==
[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]

'''TDE Multimedia''' provides developers with a set of common interfaces, libraries, tools and applications aiming to abstract the machine installed multi-media hardware and consent to write portable code. In TDE the goal is achieved recurring to [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_arts aRts]: the '''Analog Real-Time Synthesizer'''. The aRts back-end daemon provides a portable sound server able to record and reproduce sound streams, several encoding and decoding libraries and a real time sound processing framework.

To the final user the tdemultimedia package provides a set of tools and applications able to read and reproduce many sound or video file formats through easy to use graphical interfaces. Some common use included programs are:
* '''artscontrol''': A graphical interface for easy sound server configuring and monitoring.
* '''juk''': A virtual jukebox able to build and manage music collections.
* '''kaboodle''': A small and easy to use media player.
* '''kaudiocreator''': A CD ripper.
* '''kmid''': A midi file player.
* '''kmix''': The TDE integrated mixer.
* '''krec''': A sound recorder.
* '''kscd''': A music CD player.
* '''noatun''': A small, feature rich multimedia player.
Many of the listed programs functionalities can be enhanced recurring to plug-ins and optional expansion modules.

== Tdemultimedia and Slackware ==

The tdemultimendia package replaces kdemultimendia for KDE 3.5. The build system relies on '''autotools''' and has not been ported to [http://www.cmake.org cmake] yet. The kdemultimendia build script can be used for tdemultimendia, but some updates and tweaks are due. To guarantee a smooth build the following guidelines were followed:
* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
* Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
* The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
* Some configure options specific to tdemultimedia were used: '''--with-musicbrainz=no''' and '''--with-akode=no'''.
Some script lines of code and related comments follow.

Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
# Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
make -f admin/Makefile.common \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
# Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
'''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
# Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
export PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
export LIBDIR=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command with the proper option list. Package tdemultimedia requires '''--enable-closure''', '''--with-musicbrainz=no''' and '''--with-akode=no'''.
# Configure the package
LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
CFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
CXXFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
../${PRGNAM}-${VERSION}/configure \
--prefix=${PREFIX} \
--sysconfdir="/etc/trinity" \
--libdir=${LIBDIR} \
--mandir=${PREFIX}/man \
--with-qt-dir=${QTDIR} \
--with-qt-includes=${PREFIX}/include \
--with-qt-libraries=${PREFIX}/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--disable-rpath \
'''--with-musicbrainz=no''' \
'''--with-akode=no''' \
'''--enable-closure''' \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.

A full script can be downloaded from the following [http://www.giustetti.net/resource/slackbuild/tde/35132/tdemultimedia.tar.gz link]. The output package can be installed using command '''installpkg''' as usual in Slackware Linux.

For any feedback, questions, errors and such, please e-mail me at ''studiosg [at] giustetti [dot] net''

External Links
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* [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]
* [http://multimedia.kde.org/ KDE Multimedia page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdemultimedia Wikipedia KDE Multimedia related page]

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Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdemultimedia Italiano]

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-Welcome to Simone Giustetti's wiki pages.
+{{header_en|title=Building a Multimedia package for TDE| keyword={{Template:keyword_en_tde}}| description=Building, installing and configuring a working Multimedia package for TDE and Slackware Linux | link_page=TDE_tdemultimedia}}
 == TDEMULTIMEDIA ==
-[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]
+[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages | TDE - Base Packages]]
-'''TDE Multimedia''' provides developers with a set of common interfaces, libraries, tools and applications aiming to abstract the machine installed multi-media hardware and consent to write portable code. In TDE the goal is achieved recurring to [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=En/TDE_arts aRts]: the '''Analog Real-Time Synthesizer'''. The aRts back-end daemon provides a portable sound server able to record and reproduce sound streams, several encoding and decoding libraries and a real time sound processing framework.
+'''TDE Multimedia''' provides developers with a set of common interfaces, libraries, tools and applications aiming to abstract the machine installed multi-media hardware and consent to write portable code. In TDE the goal is achieved recurring to [[En/TDE_arts |aRts]]: the '''Analog Real-Time Synthesizer'''. The aRts back-end daemon provides a portable sound server able to record and reproduce sound streams, several encoding and decoding libraries and a real time sound processing framework.
 To the final user the tdemultimedia package provides a set of tools and applications able to read and reproduce many sound or video file formats through easy to use graphical interfaces. Some common use included programs are:
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 * '''noatun''': A small, feature rich multimedia player.
 Many of the listed programs functionalities can be enhanced recurring to plug-ins and optional expansion modules.
 == Tdemultimedia and Slackware ==
 The tdemultimendia package replaces kdemultimendia for KDE 3.5. The build system relies on '''autotools''' and has not been ported to [http://www.cmake.org cmake] yet. The kdemultimendia build script can be used for tdemultimendia, but some updates and tweaks are due. To guarantee a smooth build the following guidelines were followed:
-* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
+* Directory ''/opt/trinity'' was set as package root directory.
 * Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
 * The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
@@ Line 33: / Line 29: @@
 Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
     # Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
     echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
     make -f admin/Makefile.common \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
     # Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
     patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
 '''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
     # Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
     export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
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     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command with the proper option list. Package tdemultimedia requires '''--enable-closure''', '''--with-musicbrainz=no''' and '''--with-akode=no'''.
     # Configure the package
     LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
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        --with-qt-libraries=${PREFIX}/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
        --disable-rpath \
-       '''--with-musicbrainz=no''' \
+       --with-musicbrainz=no \
-       '''--with-akode=no''' \
+       --with-akode=no \
-       '''--enable-closure''' \
+       --enable-closure \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.
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 External Links
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 * [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]
 * [http://multimedia.kde.org/ KDE Multimedia page]
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-Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdemultimedia Italiano]
+{{footer_en | link_page=TDE_tdemultimedia}}