Phonon oddities

[Leonardo Franchi]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009 09:34:37 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> '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.

When the gstreamer engine stops sucking, we'll stop telling people to use 
xine. Sure, in theory it may be better, but when users come to us saying 
amarok can't play music, or is skipping tracks, or ${insert random behaviour 
here}, and switching to the xine phonon engines fixes it, we have no reason to 
tell people to use gst.


leo

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