On 01/27/2011 10:05 PM, Martin Schlander wrote:
Torsdag den 27. januar 2011 20:25:45 skrev Dave Plater:
xine phonon backend builds from phonon, makes me wonder why they blame xine for the problem. Could you paste a link to the source of your info. Oh well back to work
Noone is blaming xine for anything.
The upstream Phonon developers just stated they will stop maintaining phonon- backend-xine. They didn't give any reason. http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/phonon-family-4-4-4/
But personally I suspect the reasons are mainly non-technical. E.g.:
VLC is very cross-platform. Important e.g. for Amarok and other multimedia apps with ambitions to make it big on OSX and MS Windows.
GStreamer is pushed by some major distros and Nokia to some extent (wonder why...).
So xine just pulls the short end of the stick, since there is limited manpower and traction... That is until someone does the world a favour and steps up and does the job of maintaining phonon-backend-xine :-)
xine's actually got a windows port in the pipeline and qt has a backend that was mentioned in the blog comments. You're right about the vlc part, also mentioned was the vlc developer is present on their irc channel. As far as the phonon-backend-xine is concerned, if it still builds from the main package and xine carries on being the most stable multimedia backend I can't see a maintenance problem, haven't explored xine/phonon relationship yet though. BTW mplayer are working on a phonon back end it seems. libdvdnav and libdvdread come from the mplayer git repos. This competitive spirit can only benefit the user anyway, unless of course it gets nasty and phonon blocks out xine. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org