Some general issues with Phonon...

[Ian Monroe]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>  While still working on VLC and MPlayer backends, I encounter some issues.
>  (btw MPlayer backend start to be nice: audio channel support already
>  and subtitles are on the way)
>
>  - About naming: AudioChannel and AudioStream, I think it's confusing.
>  For me it is the same thing (or I missed something)

Well it's channels as in a TV channel.

>  - All the Phonon CMakeLists.txt uses KDE stuffs (KDEMacros.cmake,
>  kde4_add_plugin...), even the tests (KApplication, KAboutData...).
>  As a whole, Phonon is very KDEish and it makes it difficult to get the
>  latest Phonon svn and run the tests on Qt only platform (Windows).
>  Ideal would be to make Phonon only depend on Qt and remove KDE
>  dependencies. I don't think having KAboutData in the test apps is very
>  "value added" oriented.
>  I can send a patch about this if you want: with the use of if
>  (KDE4_FOUND) so there is both: KDE support and Qt only support.
>
>  - Impossible to use KDE-Phonon without instantiate KApplication
>  I have to #ifdef my test apps to replace QApplication by KApplication
>  otherwise KDE-Phonon doesn't start
>  Is there a simpler way to solve this?

If you're going to use the Phonon out of KDE why not use KDE (if only
for development purposes)? KDE is on Windows.
Sounds like you're just asking for trouble trying to use KDE's Phonon
without KDE.