14 Jun
2010
14 Jun
'10
6:33 p.m.
On 14 June 2010 13:38, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
KDE's "amarok" media player seems to
have been improved a lot; I might
even replace 'rhythmbox' with it, now that I've gone KDE....
Looking at
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.h…
I notice the following statement:
There is no "preferred" - there is just a "default". That is Xine,
and
that is fine.
Technically, there _can_ be a difference. As we all know, the mixing
matters. But I don't know enough about all of these engines to be able
to tell a practical difference.
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Let me sum up why exactly this new Phonon backend
is so important to us:
Phonon-VLC is fully cross-platform, so we don't need special backends for Windows and
Mac any more
It's already far more stable than most other existing Phonon backends
We can now focus on creating one good backend, instead of having 10 more or less broken
ones
It simply sounds awesome. I'm not sure why that is, but the sound quality is notably
better than with xine
What exactly about http://gitorious.org/phonon/phonon-vlc would make
it "sound awesome" ?
Or is there a problem with Xine that would make it sound less awesome??
Also, what's the preferred KDE backend for multimedia? In "System
Settings"->Multimedia->Backend, my system has "Phonon Xine Backend"
(
http://www.xinehq.de/ ) as preferred, and "Phonon GStreamer backend" (
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ ) as secondary. Is that the correct
configuration, or should I be using Phonon GStreamer backend instead?