VLC Phonon Backend: some news

[Fabio Locati]

On Monday 07 April 2008 07:57:21 Tanguy Krotoff wrote:
> 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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It seems to work (the basic stuff, I mean) :).
Great job :)

-- 
Fabio Alessandro Locati
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