Phonon oddities

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> 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).

The licensed codecs aren't open source AFAIK.

Ian