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On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:18:41 -0600 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On 02/05/2012 06:02 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> In short, both GStreamer and VLC can do anything that Xine do, and |
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> >> they probably do it better. If something is not working properly, |
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> >> it probably is a problem with the integration with KDE (via |
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> >> phonon). This should be fixed by them in a short time. |
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> > Stuff doesn't get fixed. Instead, new bugs keep piling up. KDE is |
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> > going down the drain. If the trend continues, KDE 4.9 will be of |
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> > the same stability as 4.0. |
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> When Totem (the GNOME media player) changed its backend from Xine to |
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> GStreamer (way back in 2004 or 2005), it took a while to fix all the |
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> regressions. |
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Remember the first release of Ubuntu (warty)? Remember how it shipped |
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with Totem + Gstreamer? Remember the gigantic amount of flak |
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Shuttleworth got from the "oh noes! you change stuff!" crowd? |
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It looks like he's now been vindicated for several years already, as |
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gstreamer does work nicely. True, his reasons for using it then were |
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licensing reasons, not so much technical ones, but it's still nice to |
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see projects start off with somewhat patchy support for "stuff" and |
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gradually improve to supporting almost everything. |
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> But eventually it got really, really nice. And back then |
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> GStreamer was not as nice as it is now. Have a little faith in the |
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> devs and do your part (fill bugs, use the betas, follow upstream |
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> closely), and in the end everything sorta kinda maybe will work out. |
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> Sixteen years using Linux as my exclusive OS has taught me that's the |
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> only sane way to see things. The alternative is to get angry a lot and |
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> grow ulcers and maybe cancer. |
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> Regards. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |