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.html I notice the following statement: > 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? Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
