Phonon

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 06:33:15 pm Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:35, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2010 15:12:14 Martin Sandsmark wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 14:26:00 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> >> > But not all backends are available/well maintained on all platforms
> >> > (for example Fedora cares more about GStreamer, other distros could
> >> > have another favourite). But I understand why you aim on one really
> >> > usable backend.
> >> 
> >> This is why we are working with VLC to iron out licensing issues and
> >> other issues (like being able to strip out patent-encumbered code) that
> >> may hinder phonon-vlc adoption. :-)
> > 
> > Yes, that's great - it's a problem for us in Fedora.
> > 
> > But that still doesn't solve problem that on some systems GStreamer
> > (people like it or not (hate is the right word)...) is better maintained
> > or even the only one solution available. So I'm in favor to support at
> > least VLC and GStreamer on the same level.
> 
> Well, the problem is that the gstreamer backend is not currently
> maintained and has far too many bugs to be recommendable. If the
> distributions really care, some help would be appreciated. So far, not
> even gstreamer is flawless with new bugs appearing every now and then
> (one only recently), its structure is not exactly easy to grasp with
> far too many codecs/demuxers/encoders/plugins etc. which makes it a
> quite complicated framework. Some Mandriva developers did contribute
> code but since they no longer work for Mandriva nothing has moved in
> the gstreamer backend since.

Fair enough, I shouldn't talk but help in this case (and yes, I'm scared from 
GStreamer and PulseAudio complexity ;-). Could you point me for beginning to 
the top GStreamer backend bugs/problems I can take a look?

> > /me is fan of VLC backend though ;-)
> 
> Well, the big difference here is that we do collaborate with the VLC
> developers who contribute code and help wherever they can. But some
> more hands are really appreciated so we can iron out the biggest
> problems and soon ship it to the distributions.

That's great VLC developers collaborate in a such way!

Jaroslav

> 
> Regards, Myriam.

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