https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486342
--- Comment #9 from Tuomas Nurmi <tuo...@norsumanageri.org> --- Yes, fine questions. Some answers: As phonon-gstreamer backend is unmaintainend (related discussion at https://invent.kde.org/libraries/phonon-gstreamer/-/issues/1 ) and thus unsupported, it has lately been removed from various distribution repositories. For openSUSE, the packages are still available at various experimental repositories ( https://software.opensuse.org/package/phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer ) However, due to fact that it is unsupported, even its most obvious and fixable bugs will not get fixed (e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475880 ) If multiple backends are installed, Phonon backend can be changed using phononsettings application (available from separate phononsettings package, at least on openSUSE). The packagers have set phonon-vlc-qt5 as dependency probably as it is the only supported backend at the moment (okay, there's apparently also phonon4qt5-backend-mpv but I have no experience with that one, and it being a fork of phonon-vlc, its features are likely subset of those of phonon-vlcs), and some backend is needed. When talking about "phonon-vlc team", one should be aware that although there are some people keeping the lights on with phonon-vlc, the actual development work on it (as well as anything phonon-related) has been quite limited for 5 years or so, as observable from e.g. the code history at https://invent.kde.org/libraries/phonon-vlc/-/commits/master/?ref_type=HEADS Additionally, I believe Amarok is the only software using the more specific audio functionalities in Phonon nowadays. (Some Amarok functionality related phonon-vlc bugreports, which are not very likely to get implemented any time soon mostly due to vlc library architechture: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323332 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320215 ) Next steps of Amarok audio playback technology are something that should receive some thoughts after/during Qt6 porting, I think. (The most obvious options being someone spending a lot of effort on phonon-vlc, someone taking up maintaining phonon-gstreamer, or rewriting Amarok audio playback to use e.g. gstreamer directly) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
