From kde-devel  Thu Apr 27 22:28:11 2006
From: Michael Pyne <michael.pyne () kdemail ! net>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:28:11 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: PHONON on win32
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On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:21, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> Quick question: How does Phonon relate to GStreamer?  I thought GStreamer
> was going to be the multimedia framework for KDE.  Someone care to
> enlighten me? Thanks for ahead of time for any replies! :)

Phonon is the response to the aRts debacle in KDE 3.  aRts was to be the=20
multimedia framework for KDE, starting from KDE 2 IIRC.  Over the lifetime =
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KDE 3, the aRts code became unmaintained.  So while projects like gstreamer=
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and NMM (eventually) advanced the state of Linux multimedia, we were stuck=
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with aRts because we had to remain backward compatible at a binary level.

With KDE 4, applications will be binary compatible with Phonon instead.  So=
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should something even better than gstreamer come along, we'll be able to=20
integrate it into Phonon and still make use of it, without being tied to a=
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specific multimedia framework.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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