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