sound from stars in stellarium
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Stellarium |
Opinion
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hi all,
This would be a wishlist. AFAIK there is sound-support in stellarium and I was able to convince the debian maintainer to build it for Debian which is now in Debian experimental. See http://
I installed it and was frustrated to find it didn't emit any sounds or anything like that from stars or/and other heavenly bodies or even from man-made satellites or something.
We had a brief discussion on the same at bugs.debian.
a. The fact that sound can't be made in a vacumm
b. If we do have sounds it should and would make it more fun esp. if using stellarium to discover and have fun with young children. As they grow old/er they could find the facts for themselves.
now as shared by the maintainer, this is more in upstream's boat. So sharing it with the hope that something can come out of it.
Of course, it does mean that the program data does become larger (if there are even short .ogg pieces in a loop or something.) and I have no idea how that would affect the program's responsiveness and things.
Just flinging it out as a potential idea.
| Changed in stellarium: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in stellarium: | |
| status: | New → Opinion |
| Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote | #1 |
| Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote | #2 |
Stellarium can reproduce sound (and video) via Qt's phonon but not on all possible hardware. This feature was introduced for real planetariums for demonstration of educational programs, and, of course, sound support doesn't related to "sounds of stars". Right now Stellarium doesn't support multiwave universe (e.g. optical + x-ray + IR + radio layers) and maximum, which we can given for users - reduce range of frequence for signals from some pulsars.
Technically I guess in binary linux distros it should be two packages:
stellarium - default binary package for Stellarium, without multimedia support
stellarium-mms - Stellarium binary package with multimedia support, which should replace stellarium package.