On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> ...i don't believe that phonon is an alternative to gstreamer.
>> in fact, if you look on this page:
>> http://phonon.kde.org/cms/1034
>> you'll see that its actually a wrapper around existing libraries like gstreamer
>
> From a user-perspective, how does "wrapper" or any meta-level approach
> to something not imply "alternative" ?
well, partly because it means that any failings in whatever is wrapped
are likely to exist in the wrapper too. if the backend can't do X,
then neither can the wrapper.
> Gstreamer applications just lockup
> or fail when a device is busy
this depends entirely on the output plugin used, and what parameters
it is used with (as demonstrated by the way that Phonon manages to use
it).
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