Choosing a Phonon backend

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> On Friday 28 March 2008 18:39:25 Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > If we'll end with such a situation then I'll call it a failure. That
> > would be a mess. No the goal must be one fully functional backend per
> > platform.
>
> Great! This is what I hoped to hear... err, read.
>
> But what are the short term plans regarding backends? Will Gstreamer be the
> backend on Linux, or will the Xine backend stick?

I'll have to take a more serious look at integrating the gst backend into KDE. 
Even with Qt 4.4 released, KDE 4.0 is meant to use the xine backend still. 
But for KDE 4.1 we can switch to phonon-gstreamer as default.

> I'm sure Xine is adequate for media players, but it is not suited at all
> for my little use case of playing sounds in kgoldrunner. ;)
>
> Unless audio mixing is being worked on...

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