On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ...i don't believe that phonon is an alternative to gstreamer. > in fact, if you look on this page: > http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1034 > you'll see that its actually a wrapper around existing libraries like gstreamer >From a user-perspective, how does "wrapper" or any meta-level approach to something not imply "alternative" ? >From a user's perspective the kde user sees phonon&xine, and gnome sees gstreamer; in that gnome applications use settings from ~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/ to determine which sound device or services to use, whereas KDE applications have a more useful mechanism achieved via phonon priority list. Gstreamer applications just lockup or fail when a device is busy -- phonon does the right thing, and notifies you via GUI of what it is doing in case of a failure, and then automatically selects the next device in the priority list. Thus my statement "a more evolved and workable alternative to gstreamer." The only place gstreamer is explicitly seen to the KDE user is under System Settings->Multimedia->Backend where Xine is the preferred backend and Gstreamer is the secondary/fallback alternative. -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
