On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Dave Plater
On 01/21/2011 10:52 PM, todd rme wrote:
A new phonon version is now out:
http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/phonon-family-4-4-4/
This part was particularly significant in my opinion:
"Last but not least we changed the default priorities of backends on Linux. To get the best experience you should now either use GStreamer or VLC. The former preferred choice Xine is as of now considered unmaintained and should not be used anymore."
The openSUSE version, however, defaults to xine, and the VLC version is not available from the openSUSE or KDE:Distro:Factory repositories at all.
I know that there was some talk about moving the phonon-VLC backend and the stripped-down VLC components from playground to KDE:Distro:Factory for 11.4, but I think this makes it more pressing. The way they mention indicates they think it is ready for use.
Either way, should we change the default backend to gstreamer (or VLC if it is moved)?
-Todd
I'm busy revamping xine-ui which was a few years between releases, just fighting with rebuilding the patch that enables a non mpv logo, all of the upstreamed patches were integrated and a chunk of one of the stated as "SUSE only changes" patches was integrated. xine-libs were updated this year 2010-03-06 and the package is still on cvs but I see that the new branch is a gtk frontend with the xine lib which was last updated two months ago. The changelog since the last xine-ui release is over an A4 page in size. I just wondered (haven't read the thread yet) why xine was considered unmaintained? It looks maintained to me and it also looks like it's becoming part of Debian. It's main strength is it's handling of dvd menus and dvd directories. Regards Dave P
I don't think xine itself is unmaintained, rather the xine phonon backend is unmaintained. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org