On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:02:19 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Really strange decision ! > > Actually no; the GStreamer plugin architecture is really nice, and > nowadays any GST based player can reproduce basically anything under > the sun. VLC is not as nice (IMHO), but last time I checked it worked > almost as good as GStreamer. > > Xine was OK ten years ago; it was what I used to watch DVD's. Back > then it was the only DVD player able to easily change subtitles > (important to me, since back then I didn't understand spoken English). > Then it was split into xine-ui and xine-lib, and then (if again I > remember correctly), xine-lib was given a plugin mechanism. In other > words, it wasn't designed; it evolved into the current form which can > use plugins, and which is the only sane way to handle all the audio > and video formats that come and go all the time. > > 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. You are quite correct. It is not xine itself that is moribund, it is the phonon integration with xine that has gone nowhere for a long while. And so that aspect of phonon has been dropped. phonon+xine wasn't dropped in favour of phonon+gstreamer. It's more a case of the number of phonon devs that feel like working on gstreamer is quite a lot (relatively) but the number of phonon devs working on xine is rather few (I believe it is actually zero), so it died. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
