Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Matthias Fehring <buschmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, 09. May 2009 13:46:39 Sid Boyce wrote:
> Martin Schlander wrote:
> > Lørdag den 9. maj 2009 01:18:46 skrev Donn Washburn:
> > > Upgrading from 11.0 to 11.2 amarok worked fine with amarok-yauap (which
> > > is broken) and amarok-xine.  Now upgraded to 11.2 and Amarok 2 but no
> > > audio or even Yast2 2 can't find a version of yauap or xine.
> >
> > Amarok2 uses phonon - so there's no need for yauap. You need
> > phonon-backend- xine or phonon-backend-gstreamer depending on which
> > engine you prefer.
> >
> > I hope you're testing with ogg files, cuz I don't think you can expect
> > factory to be sporting mp3 support after Fluendo put a stop to that.
>
> Is phonon intended to be the kde4 replacement for the likes of
> pulseaudio, portaudio and jack?
> I have not been able so far to see any effect of phonon and the
> explanations I have seen so far have been glowing reports of what it can
> do. Is is just a matter of apps being rewritten to use it?

Phonon is not a sound server, it is an API that provides access to the 
multimedia featueres of the underlying backends. And yes, the major effect of 
phonon is, that not every app must have its own code for accessing multimedia, 
it must only access phonon. So at first it is nice for developers, but  if 
something is nice for the developers, the users will benefit, too. :)

> Regards
> Sid.
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Best greetings
  Buschmann

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