Phonon

[Thierry Bastian]

Hello Jean-Baptiste,

Thanks for the update. We're really happy that multimedia finally gains
attraction in Qt and would see happily people actually using VLC.
AFAIK VLC is GPL so it is not suitable for Trolltech commercial users but
the interest goes beyond and building a community with good software is very
important to us. Having a supporter like the VLC project would be awesome.

Thierry

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf [mailto:jb at videolan.org] 
Sent: lundi 22 octobre 2007 18:54
To: Thierry Bastian
Cc: phonon-backends at kde.org
Subject: Re: Phonon

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Thierry Bastian wrote :
> I CCed phonon-backends at kde.org which is the mailing list for the phonon
> backends.
Maybe I should have checked the mailing lists that exist and subscribed
to it before asking...

> First let me thank you for the interest you're showing in Phonon. We
surely
> all know VLC ;-).
Well, VLC media player is switching to Qt4 for its interface under
windows and linux (not Mac), so integration with phonon could be a good
idea. Moreover, VLC is ported on many OSes...

> To answer your question:
> 1. Yes the user will have the opportunity to choose the backend that's
> loaded. At least that's the plan. For now the backend name is hard-coded.
> But this is only temporary.
That is very important, because if on Windows, they can't use VLC, it is
a bit a shame (Windows world is the place where VLC is very present
because of the integrated codecs, which is irrelevant in an OS that can
manage dependencies... :D )

> 2. The licence of Phonon is LGPL, like the rest of the kdelibs.
Ok. I am not familliar at all with KDElibs... :)

> 3. For the "Qt part of Phonon", Matthias Kretz was the creator of Phonon
but
> we're now collaborating. If you have questions, you can ask about them on
> the phonon-backends at kde.org list.
Ok.

Our plan is to release 0.9.0 with Qt4 interface this year (2007) with
test releases in a few weeks, and then, if it is relevant, try to see
what is doable for a phonon backend, and the following release.

Best Regards,

-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/