On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsm...@kde.org> wrote: > VLC is something that makes more sense for me.
Not disagreeing or anything since it is a well known fact that I am a VLC fanboy :P BUT During last akademy I brought up the possibility of killing phonon-gstreamer and going vlc-only in Phonon. While this discussion happened on a private packager list I can not point to it but the gist of it was that Fedora doesn't have VLC, OpenSUSE has a "crippled" VLC and Slackware doesn't have any packages and probably will not ever. KDE Sysadmins raised concerns that we wouldn't be able to provide VLC in any sort of bundled binary fashion as our mirror network covers many jurisdictions where VLC might be problematic (not that I think we would want to distribute binaries containing VLC anyway although it is very much a possibility with windows/osx I have been told). Back then we actually outlined ways for Fedora to also ship a crippled VLC. From what I have heard rumor-wise that went nowhere on account of red hat not wanting anything even remotely problematic on their servers, which seems very reasonable considering they are a US based company. At any rate though a VLC on Fedora will be worse off than a GStreamer based thing. Unlike GStreamer [1] there is no built-in runtime installer for VLC right now, so if one were to pursue this and doesn't want subpar experience on some distributions at the very least one would also need to craft a plugin installer. And TBH, having silly installer dialogs pop up when trying to watch porn kinda screws up the whole experience :P Anyway, just something more to consider. [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html HS _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
