On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > In short: I have tested several use cases and gstreamer seems not to be > usable. So Id' like to disable support for it in upcoming phonon releases. > > My problems with gstreamer: > * graphical glitches when playing some (most) mpeg files > * sometimes no sound > * bad image quality (no deinterlacing?) > * plugins depend on gnome > * it plays some videos with wrong aspect ratio > * does not seem to be a phonon problem; I had the same problems with totem; > using totem-xine fixed those. > > So, future versions of phonon will only have the xine-backend enabled. Maybe > I'll provide other backends when we have the ability to split packages. > > If you think this is a bad idea, let me know.
I've always hated gstreamer. I used to do a lot of work with DirectShow on Win32, which involved this whole audio-video pipeline setup crap. I remember saying "this is terrible. thank god that linux is much easier in this aspect". A little bit later, gstreamer came out, which does the same sort of stuff as DirectShow did. So, rant aside, I am not a phonon user, but I support removal of crappy software 8)
