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 pguec...@gmail.com 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.

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 mailing

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

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

2011-06-11 Thread John5342
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 19:02, Petrus de Calguarium pguec...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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 never

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 pguec...@gmail.com 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

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 back end

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

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,

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.