VLC Phonon Backend: some news

[Tanguy Krotoff]

The new website for phonon-vlc-mplayer backends:
http://code.google.com/p/phonon-vlc-mplayer/
with some nice screenshots :p

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > * I have some questions about backends integrating inside KDE
>  >
>  >  Original phonon-vlc code uses Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2 and relies only on Qt-4.4
>  >  To make it work under KDE I need:
>  >  K_PLUGIN_FACTORY
>  >  K_EXPORT_PLUGIN
>  >  inside backend.cpp
>  >  + I need to modify my CMakeLists.txt to link with KDE libs
>  >  I checked GStreamer backend source code and there is no
>  >  K_PLUGIN_FACTORY, only Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2 (!)
>  >
>  >  So I would like to know if Qt only based plugin can work and integrate
>  >  well inside KDE Desktop.
>  >  I currently use KDE 4.0.2 (Ubuntu Hardy)
>  >
>  >  * Other subject, about Dragon Player (version 2.0.1 - KDE 4.0.2), I
>  >  don't get the video output (audio only) with phonon-vlc. Before going
>  >  further, is it for sure my mistake or Dragon Player does some nasty
>  >  things playing with xine.h?
>  >  Somebody tried Dragon Player with GStreamer?
>
>  I made the code so that if it's not running Xine it should still work.
>  That said, I've never gotten a non-xine backend to work on my computer
>  so I haven't been able to test this out really, though there was a
>  period where I added features that used the xine_stream_t property of
>  phonon-xine, but still had phonon-xine's around that didn't have that
>  property and they worked fine (but that was a while ago). Basically I
>  never assume that pointer exists and check it first before using it.
>  And all I use it for is subtitle, audio channel and DVD menu
>  selection. You might try the latest SVN of Dragon Player which only
>  uses xine_stream_t for DVD menu selection.
>
>  I would also be interested to know if someone has tried the GStreamer
>  backend with Dragon Player. :)
>
>
>  >  * Do you know others phonon apps so I might try and debug further phonon-vlc?
>  >  I found:
>  >  Dragon Player
>  >  KMPlayer
>  >  KMediaPlayer http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KMediaPlayer?content=67636
>  >  (stopped)
>  >  Amarok2
>  >  Juk
>  >
>  >  Thx
>
>  Anyways great to see phonon-videolan progressing... it would be
>  awesome if all three platforms could use the same backend. :)
>
>  Ian
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