In this file:

* What it is
* Common Mistakes
* Debugging
* More Info

What it is
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* noatun: a multimedia player for sound and movies, very extensible due to
          it's plugin interface
* aktion: a player specialiced on movies, needs xanim
* kaudiocreator: CD ripper and audio encoder frontend.
* kaboodle: light media player
* kmid: A standalone and embeddable midi player, includes a karaoke-mode
* kmidi: midi player, can use sound patch files and create a WAV file
* kmix: the audio mixer as a standalone program and Kicker applet
* kscd: A CD player with an interface to the internet CDDB database
* krec: A recording frontend using aRts

The following are libraries and plugins that are building the core
infrastructure of above applications:

* arts: a versatily multimedia system the consists of various little
        building blocks that you (or an application) can combine in
        almost arbitrary ways to create sound and video processing pipes
* kfile-plugins: provide meta information about sound files
* mpeglib: a library for MPEG 1 (layer I, II and III) encoded files
* mpeglib_artsplug: wrapped mpeglib to make it aRts-aware
* mpg123_artsplugin: a trimmed down mpg123 made aRts-compatible
* oggvorbis_artsplugin: support for ogg-vorbis (not included) in aRts
* xine_artsplugin: ??

Common Mistakes
---------------

If configure claims Qt cannot be found, have a look at http://www.troll.no
to get a copy of latest Qt 3.x version.

Debugging
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You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have
debug code in your KDE apps and libs.  If debugging is not a concern,
--disable-debug will explicitly avoid compiling additional debugging
functions.

More Info
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Have a look at the individual subdirectories, if you want to know, what
versions of apps are included.

Please direct any bug reports to our bug list by visiting
http://bugs.kde.org.

General KDE discussions should go to the KDE mailing list (kde@kde.org).

$Id: README,v 1.20 2002/11/05 23:14:32 bmeyer Exp $
