Duncan wrote:
> Bogus Zaba posted on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:36:46 +0000 as excerpted:
>
>
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have TV on my system, and I need someone who does to help me
>>> put a little info onto http://userbase.kde.org/Kaffeine about it - what
>>> it can do, any configuration that helps, any hints and tips. If you
>>> are willing to help, either edit the page yourself, or send me the text
>>> and I'll deal with formatting, syntax etc.
>>>
>>>
>> Do you want just KDE4 stuff ? I am a long-term user of Kaffeine 0.8.x on
>> KDE 3.5.y and use if for digital television, but have not yet moved to
>> KDE 4. Partly because I was not sure what the Kaffeine situation was for
>> KDE 4. Understand there is now a KDE 4 version of Kaffeine at least in
>> beta.
>>
>
> Kaffeine for kde4 has a LONG way to go to reach kde3's kaffeine
> features. Last I checked, using the "live" sources version about a month
> ago, it had barely any more features than the default kde4 dragonplayer
> and the like -- IOW, it would play video, but that's about it -- none of
> the extra stuff that had people going to the trouble of installing a non-
> kde-core kaffeine on kde3, instead of just using what shipped with kde in
> the first place.
>
> HOWEVER, there *IS* an alternative, an an EXTREMELY good one at that.
> It's called smplayer. smplayer is qt4 based, as is kde4, so other than
> switching from the xine-lib dependencies of kaffeine to the mplayer
> dependencies of smplayer (and kde4 uses both, xine-lib as a phonon/sound
> backend, and mplayer for mplayerthumbs, the kdemultimedia package that
> kde4 uses to generate video thumbnails), there's very few additional
> dependencies needed.
>
> And smplayer has all those fancy control features that make kaffeine what
> it was on kde3. In fact, it has at least one I always wished kaffeine
> had but it didn't, single-frame advance. This is on the general computer
> video side, at least. I don't have a TV card, so I can't personally
> verify comparability of features there, but it does seem to have basic
> controls for it, at least, and I've no reason to believe that would be
> inferior to its general computer based video controls, hardware
> permitting, of course.
>
> So I'd not let the lack of a full-featured kaffeine stand in the way of
> your switch to kde4, if I were you, and I would DEFINITELY checkout
> smplayer. Actually, because it's only qt4 based, you should be able to
> checkout smplayer without even bothering your kde3 installation or
> worrying about kde4 at all -- just try smplayer, which should install qt4
> as a dependency if you don't already have it installed, and I expect
> you'll be able to cross the kaffeine equivalent mediaplayer worry off
> your switching worries list entirely! It certainly was all the solution
> I could have wished for and more, here!
>
>
I agree that smplayer is a fine piece of work, but I think it does not
do digital TV - one of the nice things that works out of the box with
Kaffeine (including lots of country-specific tuning magic)
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