From kde-devel  Thu May 04 19:44:56 2006
From: John Layt <johnlayt1 () yahoo ! co ! nz>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 19:44:56 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Phonon vs. GStreamer?
Message-Id: <200605050744.56683.johnlayt1 () yahoo ! co ! nz>
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On Friday 05 May 2006 03:07, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> Karol Pietrzak wrote:
> > Hey everyone.
> >
> > I've got a quick software engineering question: what are the advantages
> > of wrapping GStreamer with Phonon instead of just using GStreamer?
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but you can just write Helix plugins for
> > GStreamer. That would be of much greater help to everyone than a Phonon
> > Helix engine.
> >
> > I just don't see the advantage of yet another KDE-only API.
> >
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who's willing to enlighten me. :)
>
> http://dot.kde.org/1146140474/

And more particularly the Phonon website itself:

http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1005

In essence it is not 'Phonon vs GStreamer' but 'Phonon + Gstreamer'.

John.

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