26 Jun
2010
26 Jun
'10
2:12 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
...i don't believe that phonon is an alternative
to gstreamer.
in fact, if you look on this page:
http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1034
you'll see that its actually a wrapper around existing libraries like gstreamer
From a user-perspective, how does "wrapper"
or any meta-level approach
to something not imply "alternative" ?
From a user's perspective the kde user sees
phonon&xine, and gnome
sees gstreamer; in that gnome applications use settings
from
~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/ to determine which sound device or
services to use, whereas KDE applications have a more useful mechanism
achieved via phonon priority list. Gstreamer applications just lockup
or fail when a device is busy -- phonon does the right thing, and
notifies you via GUI of what it is doing in case of a failure, and
then automatically selects the next device in the priority list. Thus
my statement "a more evolved and workable alternative to gstreamer."
The only place gstreamer is explicitly seen to the KDE user is under
System Settings->Multimedia->Backend where Xine is the preferred
backend and Gstreamer is the secondary/fallback alternative.
-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com