Phonon oddities

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> On 22.04.09 13:45:47, Martin T. Sandsmark wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 22. April 2009 13:11:24 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>>>> I was really just lamenting that the "solution" to the gstreamers
>>>>> engines suckiness when Qt landed it many moons ago was to replace it
>>>>> with a xine engine rather than to make it work properly.
>>>> I was under the impression that the Xine engine was the first (publically
>>>> available) Phonon backend.
>>> Exactly, xine was the only phonon engine available when KDE 4.0 (and hence
>>> the first version of phonon) was released (IIRC), only with Qt4.4 and the
>>> addition of phonon was a gstreamer engine available, added by Trolltech
>>> back then.
>> There has also been talk with some of the VLC guys of a VLC engine,
>> which would not only be cross-platform (and should be pretty stable) but
>> should (AFAIK) legally be able to play MP3s.
> 
> As legal as any other open source MP3 player.

Which doesn't imply anything one way or the other.

GStreamer licensed the codecs, which make it completely legal to use
MP3s with GStreamer, as opposed to Xine (this is one reason that
GStreamer was chosen for the cross-platform Qt-provided backend).

--Jeff

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