Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer

[vedant agarwala]

Hello everyone,

I was planning to use the Phonon Gstreamer as a backend to decode
audio data for feeding into the lastfm fingerprinter. And also porting
my existing libofa (FFmpeg) code for chromaprint to the same. But
after this email, I think it will be a really bad idea. Please give
your inputs. And if there is any alternative to decoding the audio
data for the lastfm fingerprinter please suggest. Currently I will
have to write decoders for every music format individually. This means
lots of extra work now and in the future as maintenance.

Regards,
Vedant

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:25 PM
Subject: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer
To: "For discussion of multimedia (sound/video) issues under KDE"
<kde-multimedia at kde.org>


Ahoy,

since everyone who ever was/is/wanted to be Phonon GStreamer
maintainer is either busy or has no interest in it, the backend has as
of right now no actual maintenance.

If anyone wishes to step up and move the backend forward now is the
time to do it. I'd like to note that this is not a one-man job though
and I am going to continue to be supporting developer.

In the unfortunate case that no one is willing enough we will have to
look at the possibility of moving the backend out of the support
scope, leaving Phonon VLC as the only actively supported backend on
all platforms.

As immediate result I will likely have to demote the backend's initial
preference for the upcoming 4.7.0 release below Phonon VLC's.

HS
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