xine or gstream

[O. Sinclair]

On 27/05/2011 11:35, Isak Enström wrote:
> 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"
>
>
just to confuse things it seems they want to switch to vlc backend... I 
now have all 3 installed, will see what works best