Phonon backends

[Rog132]

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> Official deprecation of phonon-backend-xine:

List: kde-announce
Subject: [kde-announce] Official deprecation of phonon-backend-xine
From: Trever Fischer
Date: 2011-06-06 14:17:32


Its been mentioned once or twice in public channels, but nobody has actually
made a straightforward announcement.

The Xine backend for Phonon is totally unmaintained and therefore deprecated.
The only backends people should be using are VLC and GStreamer.

Unless of course, some willing and brave developer would like to step up and
take on the challenge

[Rog132]

Re: Phonon backends

> KDE News
> KDE commit-digest. Issue 187. 12th June 2011:

An update on Phonon-Xine with Trever Fischer, maintainer of Phonon-GStreamer:

We here at the Commit-Digest asked Trever Fischer, maintainer of Phonon-GStreamer and libphonon, about why the Xine backend has become officially unmaintained. To begin, Trever first outlined the most recent commit history, which is lacking:...

[pwabrahams]

GStreamer vs. VLC

OK, I've just removed Xine from my system as recommended. At the moment I have GStreamer installed. But what are the pros and cons of Gstreamer vs. VLC?

[OneLine]

Sources

Pick your poison: http://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon

Sub Projects:

Phonon
Phonon DirectShow
Phonon GStreamer
Phonon MMF
Phonon MPlayer
Phonon QuickTime
Phonon VLC
Phonon WaveOut
Phonon Xine

Binaries

Many binaries can be found from the Personal Package Archives for Ubuntu (PPA): https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas


Older Xine Phonon backend binaries from the Ubuntu repositories: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

I tried with the phonon-backend-xine_4.7.0really4.4.4-0ubuntu3_i386.deb, Kubuntu 11.10 & Kubuntu 12.04-alpha2. At here, the Natty binaries are working fine.

Oldest binaries (after the end of life) from the Ubuntu repositories: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ -> http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/



Oneiric Xine Phonon backend binaries can be found: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric...4.4.4-3ubuntu1.

Withdraw request: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ne/+bug/832856

[woodsmoke]

Thanks, I had fiddled with Xine a while back and it basically didn't work, now I know why. Curiously, I posted a thread elsewhere about phonon backend for Amarok needing two items to work for mp3 streams. I wonder if there will be OTHER stuff!? lol, but anyway, thanks for this thread.

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

OK, I've just removed Xine from my system as recommended. At the moment I have GStreamer installed. But what are the pros and cons of Gstreamer vs. VLC?

I prefer VCL because it has the most power in the smallest package. I can watch up to 12 videos on a single screen at the same time (which I was doing while watching the BP robots in the Gulf, and watching the webcam outputs along the US-Mexican border). VCL also allows me to change an audio or video file from one format into another. And, it offers streaming....

[woodsmoke]

I would probably be watching Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, SkyKing, the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardey, Hopalong Cassidy and the Galloping Gourmet. But, then I'm not GG.

woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Rocky and Bullwinkle was a cartoon for adults! I loved it!

[Mamarok]

[QUOTE=OneLine;286471]Sources

Pick your poison: http://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon

Which is not exatly helpful, as most of these links show no activity at all and were only copied over to the git repository for historic reasons.
Currently only the phonon-backend-gstreamer and the phonon-backend-vlc are maintained, besides Phonon of course