Future of Phonon?

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So, we discussed a bit, during aKademy, about KDE multimedia and Phonon.
>
> The truth is that it's a mess...
>
> It's a mess for multiple reasons, but the biggest are phonon's original
> ideas solving a problem noone had; the huge fuckup from Qt with
> QtMultimedia, QtMultimediaKit, QtMultimedia 2.0 (Qt5) (even after we
> told them) and finally because KDE multimedia applications are really
> not good...
>
> While we can't do much about the past, we can discuss about the
> future...
>
> So far, the KDE Multimedia applications are:
>
> Audio:
>  - AmaroK
>  - JuK
>  - kscd
>
> Video
>  - Dragon
>  - Bangarang
>
> And the other users are dolphin, gwenview, digiKam and Knotification.
>
>
> Plasma media center is using QtMultimedia, because of QML.
>
> Kdenlive is out of scope...
>
> Of those applications, none are amazing nor in good shape, which does
> not help too much to find good use cases, tbh...
>
>
> So we have a few solutions:
>  - drop phonon totally, and let developers have fun with the 45+ classes
>    of QtMultimedia and various backends,
>  - prepare a phonon5 version with a huge new API,
>  - deprecate a bit the weird phonon4 classes, add a Qml layer for the common
>    classes (VideoView, MediaPlayer, Media), and let see if that's enough
>    for Plasma media center and updates of Dragon and the other.
>  - use qt-vlc everywhere :)
>
>
> I'd argue the Qml on phonon4 is the simplest to do. We could take API
> ideas from qt-vlc, for example...
>
> Ideas? Thoughts?
>
>
> With my kindest regards,
>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734
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Would it make sense to work on QtQuick bindings for VLC? Maybe that's
what phonon should become.
That, provided that kdemultimedia apps are interested in moving to QML...

Aleix
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