Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-10-01 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 01 October 2009 03:02:04 Kevin Kofler wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: That's not about standardize on GTK+ That was just an example of how one size fits it all doesn't always work when it comes to libraries, there will always be more than one library for some purposes. We

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lennart Poettering wrote: Haha. So the major 'advantage' of Phonon that it would allow replacing the backends as time progresses without breaking the KDE apps using them now officially is proven to be bogus. The KDE/Qt folks were so afraid of a media engine breaking API so that they created

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Another interesting thing is PA Phonon integration work by Colin Guthrie (see the link in my first message). Phonon just as wrapper/thin client for PA with nicer Qt like API. I like this idea. That's not what his current work does, and it's not really possible as PA

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Clive Messer
On Tuesday 29 Sep 2009 16:03:54 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: We, KDE SIG, are considering which backend should be default for Phonon in Fedora. 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

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Janssen
2009/9/30 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de: On Tue, 29.09.09 22:46, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: Uh. Nokia stands pretty firmly behind gst. As do most embedded folks. Behind GStreamer, sure. Behind Phonon (and thus also Phonon-GStreamer),

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 15:33:43 Kevin Kofler wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Another interesting thing is PA Phonon integration work by Colin Guthrie (see the link in my first message). Phonon just as wrapper/thin client for PA with nicer Qt like API. I like this idea. That's not

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 30.09.09 15:41, Thomas Janssen (thom...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: Haha. So the major 'advantage' of Phonon that it would allow replacing the backends as time progresses without breaking the KDE apps using them now officially is proven to be bogus. The KDE/Qt folks were so afraid

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 30.09.09 10:15, Jaroslav Reznik (jrez...@redhat.com) wrote: So where's the problem? There are two Phonons - one in Qt, one in KDE. 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.

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 30.09.09 13:53, Rahul Sundaram (sunda...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: On 09/30/2009 01:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So where's the problem? There are two Phonons - one in Qt, one in KDE. I don't like this schizophrenia. This should be solved but now we have to live with one

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/30/2009 09:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: 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. True but we do have Phonon using Gstreamer as the backend in Rawhide. If it has severe

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lennart Poettering wrote: 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. Uh, I have to disagree there. It is not our job as distribution packagers to dictate to upstream developers what multimedia library

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:11:36 Kevin Kofler wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: 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. Uh, I have to disagree there. It is not our job as distribution

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 00:11 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 29.09.09 22:46, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) wrote: Behind GStreamer, sure. Behind Phonon (and thus also Phonon-GStreamer), not so much. They're currently using it, but there are people working on the Qt

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
FJR == Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com writes: FJR * Phonon backend not as mature as Xine one FJR - missing functionality Perhaps you could supply more detail as to which functionality is missing? - J -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: GStreamer backend facts: * now default one in Fedora (F12, rawhide) * GStreamer is Fedora's default multimedia framework - better support from Fedora side? (PA, releases) * Phonon backend not as mature as Xine one - missing functionality More bugs too. * Maybe

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 29.09.09 18:23, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) wrote: Jaroslav Reznik wrote: GStreamer backend facts: * now default one in Fedora (F12, rawhide) * GStreamer is Fedora's default multimedia framework - better support from Fedora side? (PA, releases) * Phonon backend not

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 17:03 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Hi! We, KDE SIG, are considering which backend should be default for Phonon in Fedora. 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

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Lennart Poettering wrote: Uh. Nokia stands pretty firmly behind gst. As do most embedded folks. Behind GStreamer, sure. Behind Phonon (and thus also Phonon-GStreamer), not so much. They're currently using it, but there are people working on the Qt Mobility project talking about replacing

Re: [KDE] Which Phonon? Phonon backend - GStreamer or Xine?

2009-09-29 Thread Eric Springer
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Do I hear an I told you so!? Abstractionitis is an illness, not a remedy. Aren't you the pulseaudio developer? /runs and hides -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com