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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-09-25 19:52:01
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 "holding my nose, i 
used it because i had to". it's really not a good framework. for simplistic 
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's remarkably better than QtMultimedia, which itself was an exercise 
in NIH by certain people who worked on Qt for Nokia at the time.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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