xine or gstream

[Isak Enström]

On 27/05/11 09:00, O. Sinclair wrote:
> Does anyone know why gstream is supposed to be better or why it was
> chosen as backend in Natty 11.04? To me it seems like things that worked
> before in Kaffeine now does not, and that video playback is choppier
> than it was.
>
> Best regards
> Sinclair
>

I think that the gstreamer backend was chosen because it can allow you 
to search for missing codecs when trying to play a file that could 
otherwise not be played. It might have something to do with consistency 
between different *buntus also.

I'm using the VLC backend myself (as is standard in PCLOS) and it's 
working fine for me.

a quick google found this, from: 
http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/kubuntu-11-04-sneak-peek-uds-cookie/

"QtWebKit is changing to a less sophisticated solution that hard-depends 
on the GStreamer framework, consequently we will have to provide 
GStreamer on the Kubuntu CD to support HTML5 audio/video in our current 
default browser Rekonq. Additionally OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice on 
Ubuntu also depends on GStreamer, so it only seems a logical option to 
switch all of Kubuntu to GStreamer"


-- 
Isak

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