Which phonon backend

Sign In Sign Up. December November October September. List overview Download. Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine? Jaroslav Reznik. Tuesday, 29 September Tue, 29 Sep '09 a. Seems like it's not easy to agree on final decision KDE SIG meetings, we'd like to summarize what's the problem, some backends facts please correct me, comment, add, etc. Some backends facts For some users Xine one works better, for others GStreamer backend works better. So there are two questions: 1.

Tuesday, 29 September Tue, 29 Sep a. Kevin Kofler. Jaroslav Reznik wrote Lennart Poettering. On Tue, Lennart Poettering wrote Kevin Kofler. Lennart Poettering. Post by Lennart Poettering Uh. Nokia stands pretty firmly behind gst. As do most embedded folks. Eric Springer. Abstractionitis is an illness, not a remedy. Rahul Sundaram. Post by Jaroslav Reznik So where's the problem? I don't like this schizophrenia. This should be solved but now we have to live with one or another - that's why we brought this issue to the world.

Post by Lennart Poettering This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: if you don't activate gst noone will test it. But you don't want to activate it by default without testing. So I think it would make a lot of sense to switch to make our distro Gst-only asap. Eventually this move will have to happen anyway.

Post by Kevin Kofler So I think it would make a lot of sense to switch to make our distro Gst-only asap. Post by Kevin Kofler Kevin Kofler. Post by Jaroslav Reznik We should choose better technology over politics. I like this idea. Post by Kevin Kofler Colin Guthrie's branch still uses GStreamer or xine-lib he's currently working with both backends because he knows both are used. What it adds is that PA sinks show up as Phonon devices so you can choose where to direct your output to, as opposed to the one big "PulseAudio" device we currently.

Post by Kevin Kofler have where it just uses the sink set as default in PA. I suppose he's also going to tag the streams with the PA stream type matching the Phonon stream type the application sets, if he doesn't already.

So this lets you use Phonon's flexibility directing specific types of streams to specific outputs while still using PulseAudio, you don't have to choose one or the other anymore. Functionality, features, support - regarding to Fedora development as this could influence our final decision. Post by Lennart Poettering Haha.