Op vrijdag 7 augustus 2009 16:12:35 schreef Martin Schlander:
It's currently under discussion which Phonon backend to use/install by default in openSUSE 11.2.
Phonon is the audio/video abstraction layer used by e.g. Amarok, KDE system notification sounds, and some other KDE applications to interface with the actual multimedia engines (xine, gstreamer).
In the previous releases phonon-backend-gstreamer was the default primarily because of the Fluendo codecs which provided MP3 support for gstreamer. But since Fluendo codecs will no longer be part of the distro this default is again open for discussion.
Many, many users have probably been switching to phonon-backend-xine for use with the libxine1 package from Packman in openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1.
So what do you think? The KDE team would like to know which backend you'd prefer in 11.2 and if either one is currently causing you major grief or giving you great pleasure.
If you're unsure which Phonon backend you're currently using, see systemsettings -> Sound (KDE 4.1) / Multimedia (KDE >=4.2) -> "Engine" tab.
For me both engines have problems, but the xine one less. I like to use replaygain when listening to Amarok, but that is not working atm with the xine backend. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81661 (comment 90). On the other hand the gstreamer backend has problems with filenames with spaces and this affects Amarok and dragonplayer. This makes the gstreamer backend almost unusable. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189898 (this one seems to be fixed recently, but with 11.1 and kde 4.3 I am still experiencing it) So I think xine is the backend with less problems and therefore the one that should be the default. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org