Choosing a Phonon backend

Tanguy Krotoff tkrotoff at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 17:09:51 GMT 2008


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at cirulla.net> wrote:
>  The problem with that is that the backend that I "prefer" now may not be the
>  one that will be best six months down the road. And if I develop my
>  application on Linux, I may not know which backend is best on MacOS or
>  Windows. So I'd rather be able to say "I need a backend that can play n sound
>  objects at the same time" or "a backend that can play ogg flac files".

OK, I like your approach. Better than specifying a list of backends.
But after checking Phonon source code, I don't see how to get a list
of available backends and then check one by one their functionalities.

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Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com>
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