Phonon oddities

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Andrew Stromme at 21/04/09 23:38 did gyre and gimble:
> Yet another PulseAudio <---> Phonon conflict. Why am I not surprised....
> I wish there were a way to determine exactly what's conflicting/going wrong in 
> these cases. 

It's generally the engine in question's fault really. The Xine engine, 
which seems to be favoured (although I strongly disagree with it on 
principle - Qt started gstreamer engine (where gstreamer is a library 
pretty much perfectly suited to a phonon backend) but no one in KDE land 
seemed to want to work with it), but it's Pulse support is nowhere near 
as good as the gstreamer system. The pulse and gstreamer communities 
work very well together.

I wish I had time to focus on these issues more (better Pulse->KDE (and 
thus phonon) integration is very much on my todo list). I'm currently 
trying to push through changes at the pulse side that will hopefully 
mean a much better configuration experience in System Settings, which is 
currently totally useless is pulse is used.

Not sure when this work will be done, but keep an eye on the pulseaudio 
twitter feed and mailing list for information on this.

Col

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