On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 02/05/2012 06:02 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> In short, both GStreamer and VLC can do anything that Xine do, and >> they probably do it better. If something is not working properly, it >> probably is a problem with the integration with KDE (via phonon). This >> should be fixed by them in a short time. > > > Stuff doesn't get fixed. Instead, new bugs keep piling up. KDE is going down > the drain. If the trend continues, KDE 4.9 will be of the same stability as > 4.0.
When Totem (the GNOME media player) changed its backend from Xine to GStreamer (way back in 2004 or 2005), it took a while to fix all the regressions. But eventually it got really, really nice. And back then GStreamer was not as nice as it is now. Have a little faith in the devs and do your part (fill bugs, use the betas, follow upstream closely), and in the end everything sorta kinda maybe will work out. Sixteen years using Linux as my exclusive OS has taught me that's the only sane way to see things. The alternative is to get angry a lot and grow ulcers and maybe cancer. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
