On 01/27/2011 10:05 PM, todd rme wrote:
What makes you think "they blame xine for the problem"? I have seen nothing to indicate this. As I keep saying, they simply don't have enough time to maintain three backends. I don't see them blaming xine for anything.
-Todd
I've had a conversation via comments with the blogger who caused this thread and not actually knowing who he is and am unable to find any connection to him at official phonon sites. At the blog site there is a list of git locations for phonon and the two backends they advocate but if I replace xine and git clone git://anongit.kde.org/phonon-xine it works. I osc copypac'ed the home:blackcat to home:plater:kde4 thinking I would try to submit it for you and noticed the changes didn't have any upstream changes. With the intention of editing the upstream changes in, I searched for official changes, the automatic codec installer looks good but I was unable to find reference to version 4.4.4 at kde.org or phonon.kde.org or a source rpm at fedora only rawhide binary rpms. The only location I can find for phonon 4.4.4 is on the wordpress blog spot. The git phonon-xine confirms the move away from xine with the log message "Lower initial preference to 5 as we are moving away from xine as waepon of choice. It is now 3rd, behind VLC (10) and GStreamer (15)". I don't hold much hope for phonon-backend-vlc making it into 11.4 due to legal issues so hopefully either phonon-xine still just works or phonon-gstreamer works. The multimedia user experience of a distribution is very important to it's popularity and a glitch in phonon whether it happens to other distros or not, can turn people away. Murphy's law is still in the build service web ui so I've submitted your phonon-4.4.4, phonon-backend-gstreamer and phonon-backend-xine, via command line, on your behalf with reference to this thread. sr#59350, sr#59348 and sr#59347 Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org