Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 10, 2006 01:27 AM
"Some people complain that it is dubbling of effort to write Phonon and that it would make sense to integrate gstreamer directly since it *is* the de facto standard at the moment"
The shere inaccuracy of that statemnt alone proves that 'some people' don't know what they are talking about. It's rather pussling to se Gstreamer reffered to as de facto standard in this context(Desktops), standard where I'd say.
Not in Gnome and not anywhere else for sure. It's NOT a standard for desktop multimedia (aRts on the other hand actually are, since the whole KDE desktop system uses it), since the Gnome desktop services still relies on the ancient ESD.
One may argue and call it the standard for Gnome multimedia players, but that only confirms the lack of understanding since multimedia players only are a subset of what desktop multimedia actually are.
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Re:Nice article! Something to add:
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 10, 2006 01:27 AMThe shere inaccuracy of that statemnt alone proves that 'some people' don't know what they are talking about. It's rather pussling to se Gstreamer reffered to as de facto standard in this context(Desktops), standard where I'd say.
Not in Gnome and not anywhere else for sure. It's NOT a standard for desktop multimedia (aRts on the other hand actually are, since the whole KDE desktop system uses it), since the Gnome desktop services still relies on the ancient ESD.
One may argue and call it the standard for Gnome multimedia players, but that only confirms the lack of understanding since multimedia players only are a subset of what desktop multimedia actually are.
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