current xine and gstreamer status and capibilities

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Artur Szymiec <artur.szymiec at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to ask about current status of phonon back-ends.
> 1) Which one of the back-ends will be "favorite" one. I heard that gstreamer
> is officially supported by QT.
>     On the other hand I can't bring the gstreamer back-end to work in KDE
> (Kubuntu 9.04, KDE 4.2.3) - does it mean it's broken ?

It's never worked for me either, neither on Kubuntu nor on OpenSUSE

> 2) Are there any plans to add more effects to phonon. Especially I'm
> interested in adding an equalizer effect.

IIRC you can use Quasar for that:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/quasar/
http://vir.homelinux.org/blog/archives/119-Phonon-+-Quasar.html

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