vlc and arts on KDE

[Michael Flohr]

Hi,

some people seem to have difficulties to get
audio output on KDE running the arts sound server.
Simply do:

artsshell supsend
artsshell terminate
vlc ...
artswrapper 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &

It is not a nice way, since you have to get rid
of artsd first. Using the 'artsshell' is a bit cleaner
than just 'killall artsd'. After using vlc,
'artswrapper' starts the sound server again.
Make sure to get rid of its diagnostic messages,
since it reports every change in status of the
artsd.

I read that the xine people have an arts audio
output plugin in work (xine 0.5, which is not yet
released), maybe one could use that as a base to
write a vlc arts audio output plugin. Latency will
certainly be the main problem (as it is with esd),
but the xine people seem to use the average
latency time reported by, say, 'artsshell status',
for synchronization.

Michael