From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 25 19:52:01 2013
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:52:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer
Message-Id: <1837363.J4Y9OCD0TB () freedom>
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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 13:38:57 Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
> I had to write a Qt5 app for playing music/video some
> time ago, and I have used QtMultimedia5, so far so good
> QtMultimedia seems to provide everything I needed tho
> it still uses gstreamer 0.10.

my experience with QtMultimedia can best be summed up by =E2=80=9Choldi=
ng my nose, i=20
used it because i had to=E2=80=9D. it=E2=80=99s really not a good frame=
work. for simplistic=20
things, ok...

> AFAIK Phonon was created
> due the lack of QtMultimedia, so now that it's there and
> it's maintained shouldn't we drop Phonon, or even better
> why is Phonon still important?

because it=E2=80=99s remarkably better than QtMultimedia, which itself =
was an exercise=20
in NIH by certain people who worked on Qt for Nokia at the time.

--=20
Aaron J. Seigo