Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer
Aaron J. Seigo
aseigo at kde.org
Wed Sep 25 20:52:01 BST 2013
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 13:38:57 Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
> I had to write a Qt5 app for playing music/video some
> time ago, and I have used QtMultimedia5, so far so good
> QtMultimedia seems to provide everything I needed tho
> it still uses gstreamer 0.10.
my experience with QtMultimedia can best be summed up by “holding my nose, i
used it because i had to”. it’s really not a good framework. for simplistic
things, ok...
> AFAIK Phonon was created
> due the lack of QtMultimedia, so now that it's there and
> it's maintained shouldn't we drop Phonon, or even better
> why is Phonon still important?
because it’s remarkably better than QtMultimedia, which itself was an exercise
in NIH by certain people who worked on Qt for Nokia at the time.
--
Aaron J. Seigo
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