On Wednesday 30 September 2009 15:33:43 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > Another interesting thing is PA & Phonon integration work by Colin > > Guthrie (see the link in my first message). Phonon just as wrapper/thin > > client for PA with nicer Qt like API. I like this idea. > > That's not what his current work does, and it's not really possible as PA > doesn't do decoding, so you'd still need some decoding library. Of course, I know! > Colin Guthrie's branch still uses GStreamer or xine-lib (he's currently > working with both backends because he knows both are used). What it adds is > that PA sinks show up as Phonon devices so you can choose where to direct > your output to, as opposed to the one big "PulseAudio" device we currently Yes, he does. > have (where it just uses the sink set as default in PA). I suppose he's > also going to tag the streams with the PA stream type matching the Phonon > stream type the application sets, if he doesn't already. > > So this lets you use Phonon's flexibility (directing specific types of > streams to specific outputs) while still using PulseAudio, you don't have > to choose one or the other anymore. And that's what I have been talking - it does not duplicate PA, but just wraps PA. Jaroslav > Kevin Kofler > -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
