VLC Phonon Backend: some news
Fabio Locati
fabiolocati at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 16:15:04 BST 2008
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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