Phonon xine backend future

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 15:37, Artur Szymiec <artur.szymiec at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I wasn't watching last changes in the phonon development,
> however I heard that xine backend is going to be removed
> from phonon backends and gstreamer will be a main linux backend.
> Can anyone confirm that ?

Xine itself doesn't have a future, so phonon-xine has been headed
towards the chopping block for a while.

> I'm afraid about the phonon equalizer in xine backend which is used
> by amarok. After switch to gstreamer the amarok will lost his equalizer.
> This also leads to maybe more deeper concern : do the audio processing
> plugins should be fixed in backend ? Could we make a interface which
> is backend independent - adding a possibility to the frontend app to handle
> the effects ? Wouldn't be this more flexible ?

How would that be possible? What in the equalizer plugin could be made
abstract across backends? Code like that is very backend specific.
That's why it is where it is.

Ian