Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rex Dieter wrote: > It used xine-lib directly, only because phonon lacked support for DVD > menus (until recently). kde-4.7 will (should!) fix that. Also note that the DVD menu hack in Dragon Player only works with phonon- backend-xine. Hopefully we'll soon have code which uses the new Phonon i

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Curious. I thought Dragon must use xine-lib, since both kdemultimedia and > kdebase-runtime require it in F15. It used xine-lib directly, only because phonon lacked support for DVD menus (until recently). kde-4.7 will (should!) fix that. -- Rex -- devel mailin

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-13 Thread John5342
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 02:06, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > John5342 wrote: > >> I forget which one exactly contains the mp3 plugin > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly, I believe > >> i just install all of them and then i don't have to worry about any >> other format i may one day come across. > > ditto >

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
John5342 wrote: > I forget which one exactly contains the mp3 plugin gstreamer-plugins-ugly, I believe > i just install all of them and then i don't have to worry about any > other format i may one day come across. ditto > The same plugins are also used by just about every other form of KDE >

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > John5342 wrote: > >> Hence xine-lib-extras-freeworld should make no difference to amarok when >> using the default backend anyway. You probably want gstreamer-plugins-* >> in f15+ (or whenever phonon-backend-gstreamer became the default) unless >> you changed the bac

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread John5342
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 22:59, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > John5342 wrote: > > > Hence xine-lib-extras-freeworld should make no difference to amarok when > > using the default backend anyway. You probably want gstreamer-plugins-* in > > f15+ (or whenever phonon-backend-gstreamer became the def

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
John5342 wrote: > Hence xine-lib-extras-freeworld should make no difference to amarok when > using the default backend anyway. You probably want gstreamer-plugins-* in > f15+ (or whenever phonon-backend-gstreamer became the default) unless you > changed the back end manually. Oh, so you mean I ne

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread John5342
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 19:02, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > there's one third-party KDE-Platform-based application still using > > xine-lib for the foreseeable future: Kaffeine. > > kaffeine has begun to look kind of shabby. I always installed it, as xine > appeared to h

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-11 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Kevin Kofler wrote: > there's one third-party KDE-Platform-based application still using > xine-lib for the foreseeable future: Kaffeine. kaffeine has begun to look kind of shabby. I always installed it, as xine appeared to have the most complete set of codecs. Can other programs now deal with

Re: orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rex Dieter wrote: > The labor of love that was maintaining xine-lib has passed, as it will no > longer be a dependency in f16's kde stack in any form. As such, I'm > orphaning it. Kevin Kofler has offered to take ownership, though I'd > venture he'd welcome any comaintainer assistance offered. F

orphaning xine-lib, EOL'ing phonon-backend-xine

2011-06-10 Thread Rex Dieter
The labor of love that was maintaining xine-lib has passed, as it will no longer be a dependency in f16's kde stack in any form. As such, I'm orphaning it. Kevin Kofler has offered to take ownership, though I'd venture he'd welcome any comaintainer assistance offered. In a similar vein, phono