[Amarok] 527dd33 Finally: Amarok works with Phonon-VLC AND Phonon-X

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 3/30/2010 11:21 AM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>> commit 527dd33277342bbb941c851bbbf1cc4f12ad1442
>>> Author: Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
>>> Date:   Tue Mar 30 17:25:58 2010 +0200
>>>
>>>     Finally: Amarok works with Phonon-VLC AND Phonon-Xine.
>>>
>>>     Holy shit. This took about 3 days to debug. But I guess it was worth it, as
>>>     Phonon-VLC is now finally usable with Amarok, and it no longer stops after
>>>     each track. Happy testing with the new backend :)
>>
>> Congrats!!!
>
> Good news, everyone!
>
> Well first bad news: I had to revert my fixes in Amarok, because they
> broke Phonon-GStreamer.
>
> Now the good news: After much detective work we figured out what was
> wrong in Phonon-VLC, and now Ben Cooksley managed to really fix it in
> the backend, so that we don't need any changes in Amarok itself.
>
> The magical commit is here:
>
> http://gitorious.org/phonon/phonon-vlc/commit/76c626b47f2aa5275559e622ceb8024e70336b38
>
>
> Now we still have some minor issues left in Phonon-VLC (e.g. volume
> setting is a bit wonky), but mostly it can now be used without major
> problems :)

Mark, for testing purposes -- what needs to be done to build Amarok
against VLC and/or Phonon-VLC?

Valorie

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