On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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" ? well, partly because it means that any failings in whatever is wrapped are likely to exist in the wrapper too. if the backend can't do X, then neither can the wrapper. > Gstreamer applications just lockup > or fail when a device is busy this depends entirely on the output plugin used, and what parameters it is used with (as demonstrated by the way that Phonon manages to use it). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
