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<td>Re: Video backend selection</td>
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<td>Wed, 5 Jan 2022 16:56:46 +0100</td>
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<td>Jesper K. Pedersen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jesper.pedersen@kdab.com"><jesper.pedersen@kdab.com></a></td>
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<td>Tobias Leupold <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tl@l3u.de"><tl@l3u.de></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kphotoalbum@kde.org">kphotoalbum@kde.org</a></td>
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I kind of answered this already, but just for completeness<br>
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On 1/5/22 10:26, Tobias Leupold wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">PS:<br>
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Dolphin uses Phonon:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/blob/master/src/panels/information/">https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/blob/master/src/panels/information/</a><br>
phononwidget.cpp<br>
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Why not let the KDE guys care about backend selection? Quite
some time since I<br>
took a look at this.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Back then (TM) this was shown in the
systemsettings, but<br>
it seems to be removed. Still accessible through phononsettings
though. But it<br>
seems like I can select VLC or GStreamer as my Phonon backend.<br>
<br>
Isn't Phonon the abstraction layer that was intended to make it
easier for<br>
people like us, so that we don't have to rack our brains about
backend stuff?<br>
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It was, and that worked for a decade but since then it seems to
have been abandoned.<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
Please be gentle, I never followed discussion about video stuff
until now;<br>
mostly caused by the fact that I hardly use videos in my
database ;-)<br>
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No worried, thanks for your feedback.<br>
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