On 14 June 2010 13:38, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@xxxxxxxxx> 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.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? 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. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
