On 01/27/2011 06:44 PM, todd rme wrote:
I don't think the problem is with the xine packaging, or with xine itself, the problem is that developers don't have enough time to maintain 3 different backends, so they are focusing their attention on the two they think are most promising (gstreamer and vlc). So no matter how many fixes you put into xine, it won't help the xine phonon backend. What is needed for that is a dedicated developer willing maintain the xine phonon backend itself.
-Todd
I was replying to Martin's encouragement not trying to make a case for xine, btw the reason I switched from kaffeine to xine was kdf's kaffeine has irritating window behaviour and at least I have full access to fix things in multimedia. Although I'm a very active maintainer of multimedia apps and libs, gstreamer is a troubling group of packages and a possible problem for it's phonon back end in repositories like kdf is, although they build for factory atm the -base package fails for 11.3 which will cause a possible bad mix of different builds. Someone has to roll up their sleeves and wade into the gstreamer suite and clean it up. I'd be happy to give maintainer rights to someone I perceive isn't going to give me a headache by pressing a wrong button, an osc whatdependson gives a list of packages that is most probably 75% plus of a desktop system although sometimes it's caused by requiring something that's interchangeable like a back end. 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 Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org