From kde-core-devel Wed Sep 25 12:54:24 2013 From: Vadim Zhukov Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:54:24 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=138018020001476 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--001a11c2eb42bd3e0e04e734c07c" --001a11c2eb42bd3e0e04e734c07c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 25.09.2013 15:25 =D0=BF=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C=D0=B7=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=82=D0= =B5=D0=BB=D1=8C "Aaron J. Seigo" =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8= =D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB: > > On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:35:25 Harald Sitter wrote: > > since everyone who ever was/is/wanted to be Phonon GStreamer > > maintainer is either busy or has no interest in it, the backend has as > > of right now no actual maintenance. > > you may not get much a reply without some more information: > > * is there some underlying reason why there is no interest in maintaining > Phonon GStreamer? e.g. is there a GStreamer annoyance that needs to be known > about / taken into consideration? > > * what are the real-world ramifications of not having GStreamer support? which > platforms might suffer due to a lack of integration / codec support / etc as a > result? > > * what effort is currently required to support Phonon GStreamer? Is it stable > and needing continued testing and bug fixing maintenance; is it need of more > major surgery; is the big work ahead a port to Qt5 or a change in Phonon? * One more serious question: how well does this backend copes with (recent versions of) GStreamer 1.x? --001a11c2eb42bd3e0e04e734c07c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

25.09.2013 15:25 =D0=BF=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C=D0=B7=D0=BE=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=82= =D0=B5=D0=BB=D1=8C "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo@kde.org> =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB:=
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> On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:35:25 Harald Sitter wrote:
> > since everyone who ever was/is/wanted to be Phonon GStreamer
> > maintainer is either busy or has no interest in it, the backend h= as as
> > of right now no actual maintenance.
>
> you may not get much a reply without some more information:
>
> * is there some underlying reason why there is no interest in maintain= ing
> Phonon GStreamer? e.g. is there a GStreamer annoyance that needs to be= known
> about / taken into consideration?
>
> * what are the real-world ramifications of not having GStreamer suppor= t? which
> platforms might suffer due to a lack of integration / codec support / = etc as a
> result?
>
> * what effort is currently required to support Phonon GStreamer? Is it= stable
> and needing continued testing and bug fixing maintenance; is it need o= f more
> major surgery; is the big work ahead a port to Qt5 or a change in Phon= on?

* One more serious question: how well does this backend copes=C2=A0 with= (recent versions of) GStreamer 1.x?

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