On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:32:02 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > An abstraction layer's main purpose it to abstract differences of what > > is below, and as hence usually is a least common denominator of what is > > below, but certainly nothing that adds features. PA OTOH extends what > > is below, it adds features. > > Phonon also adds features compared to the underlying GStreamer or xine-lib > library. In particular, it can be set up to send different types of sounds > to different outputs, kinda like PulseAudio (but it's implemented at a > different layer, and of course it only affects applications using Phonon). > > There's also work ongoing (that branch by Colin Guthrie) on making > PulseAudio sinks show up as Phonon devices, and even reproducing the per- > sound-type preferences set in PulseAudio (so Phonon still matches them by > default, while showing the list of devices within Phonon as opposed to one > "PulseAudio" device). There too, this is a feature not offered by GStreamer > or xine-lib, but implemented by calling PulseAudio directly. See > http://colin.guthr.ie/git/phonon/log/?h=pulse for this work. This was what I thought but I was unable to write it clearly :D Jaroslav > Kevin Kofler > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
