Phonon device discovery takes too long

[Tobias Koenig]

Hej,

when starting a KDE4 session or any other application in trunk which
makes use of Phonon, there is a delay which seems to be caused by some
discovery work of Phonon.

Output on startup:
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kaccess(4486) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  "Xine"
ALSA lib setup.c:555:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA',0,0,0): No such file or directory
ALSA lib setup.c:555:(add_elem) Cannot obtain info for CTL elem (MIXER,'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA',0,0,0): No such file or directory
kaccess(4486) kdemain: X server XKB extension major= 1  minor= 0
WARNING: requested invalid MediaSource for the current source of MediaObject 
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So the startup looks unprofessional, as the user is left with a blank
screen for several seconds (depending on the hardware ;)) and some
applications (e.g. kontact) have unnecessary long startup times.

Is this only a bug on my system or can anybody else reproduce it?

Ciao,
Tobias
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