Choosing a Phonon backend

[Valentin RUSU]

On jeu, 2008-03-27 at 08:17 -0500, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org> wrote:
> >  >  Yes, I'm considering adding something like a set of flags and then the
> >  >  application can say
> >  >
> >
> >  What about the user? can he be smarter than the framework to decide?
> >  I'm developing a VLC + MPlayer backend.
> >  So I imagine a video app that let's the user choose which backend he wants.
> >
> >  MPlayer does not handle DVD menus, VLC does. From the video app it
> >  would be nice to say "for DVD playback I prefer the VLC backend and
> >  for others videos I prefer MPlayer" or "for .mov files I prefer
> >  MPlayer, for the rest VLC".
> >  There will never be a backend "to rule them all" (ok, yes, Phonon will huhu)
> >

In France, Free.fr is successfully using VLC for it's FreeBox and the
multiplayer / multisource capabilities. So, I think, the right thing to
do would be to embed it's library in Phonon.

Cheers,
Valentin