Phonon mp3 problems

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Dr. Diesel wrote:
>>> Ok, thanks, that is defiantly my problem.  No
>>> documentation/README/Install says anything about zine, I thought Phonon
>>> was a completely new backend!  Hence I purposely did not install zine!
>>
>> Phonon *is* a completely new backend  :-)
>
> But in the greatest traditions of KDE's love for layers, Phonon itself
> has backends.... and one of those backends is a Xine one!
>
> This may sound like unnecessary abstraction but from a Qt4 perspective
> (and by extension from a KDE4 on Win/OSX perspective) it is necessary to
> have a simple media API on all platforms. While it is theortically
> possible to have a single backend for all platforms (e.g. based on vlc
> or gstreamer), the easiest solution is to make it pluggable. On windows
> there is a DirectSomething backend and on OSX there is a QuickTime backend.
>
> On linux things are sadly a bit more complex in that there are *two*
> backends... IMO it would have made more sense to just have one on Linux
> and concentrate on making it not suck, but sadly that's not how it's
> playing out. IMO the gstreamer backend is the most sensible as gstreamer
> is a library specifically designed to fit into this kind of framework
> and it's the one the Qt team initially choose. There is also a KDE xine
> backend and neither backend is perfect. Time will tell what will be the
> best option here. Having hacked a little on the gstreamer backend to
> make it not suck, I hope it will get some more love soon and ultimately
> kill off the kderuntime xine one. Keeping the primary backend pure-Qt is
> important IMO.

phonon-xine was moved into kdesupport by Helio, which means that it
doesn't have KDE deps anymore.

Ian