Fwd: Video backend selection

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

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Subject: 	Re: Video backend selection
Date: 	Wed, 5 Jan 2022 16:56:46 +0100
From: 	Jesper K. Pedersen <jesper.pedersen at kdab.com>
To: 	Tobias Leupold <tl at l3u.de>, kphotoalbum at kde.org



I kind of answered this already, but just for completeness

On 1/5/22 10:26, Tobias Leupold wrote:
> PS:
>
> Dolphin uses Phonon:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/blob/master/src/panels/information/
> phononwidget.cpp
>
> Why not let the KDE guys care about backend selection? Quite some time 
> since I
> took a look at this.
unfortunately it is mostly unmaintained I believe. And the whole things 
started as I simply couldn't get it to work well when I returned back to 
linux a year ago.

I tried installing and uninstalling lots of different packages, but it 
was never working very well. So I looked at what digikam was doing and 
they had moved to QtAV, so the copycat I am, I did so too for KPA, just 
to learn it had problems with delays, then I tried VLC, but that didn't 
work with wayland only X11, and then I decided to leave it to the user 
to take the one matching him.


> Back then (TM) this was shown in the systemsettings, but
> it seems to be removed. Still accessible through phononsettings 
> though. But it
> seems like I can select VLC or GStreamer as my Phonon backend.
>
> Isn't Phonon the abstraction layer that was intended to make it easier for
> people like us, so that we don't have to rack our brains about backend 
> stuff?
It was, and that worked for a decade but since then it seems to have 
been abandoned.
>
> Please be gentle, I never followed discussion about video stuff until now;
> mostly caused by the fact that I hardly use videos in my database ;-)
No worried, thanks for your feedback.

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