Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE. It replaces the old aRts package. Phonon needs either the GStreamer or VLC backend.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/4.11.1/phonon-4.11.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: d3df5ba646e4b3f11623d998caa40e74
Download size: 308 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
CMake-3.25.2, extra-cmake-modules-5.101.0, GLib-2.74.5, and Qt-5.15.8
At least one of phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.10.0 or phonon-backend-vlc-0.11.3 needs to be installed afterwards for multimedia operation in KDE.
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/phonon
Install Phonon by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ .. && make
Now, as the root
user:
make install
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
:
This switch is used to apply higher level of the compiler
optimizations.