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Gauvain Pocentek wrote:<br>> 1. Is it reasonable to include gstreamer in xubuntu?<br><br>It has been stated in a couple places (#xubuntu and #bmpx on FN come to<br>mind immediately) that GSt more or less is "the way of future", and I
<br>tend to agree. The fact that two major desktop environments (GNOME and<br>KDE) have moved to this backend ensures healthy, active development and</blockquote><div><br>One argument I read from the xfmedia author in favour of libxine (besides its maturity) is that
<br>its license makes using it in DRM enabled apps impossible, unlike gstreamer.<br>This debate is not xubuntu specific and I can't really say more about it just I thought I'd mention it.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
maintenance, so it is certainly reasonable and perhaps preferable to<br>include GSt by default in Xubuntu Edgy. On the other hand, Xine-lib<br>isn't to be discounted just because of this momentum.</blockquote><div><br>AFAIK kubuntu
6.06 still uses xine? For KDE 4 it's true, they'll use gstreamer.<br></div><div><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In the short term, I propose we shuffle xfmedia to universe and replace<br>it with Gxine in main. Darren Salt (upstream) has been extremely helpful<br>and is quite responsive in helping the MOTUMedia team get the packages
<br>into shape for Ubuntu{,Dapper}.<br></blockquote></div><br>I use gxine as well and would have preferred it for dapper as well, but they multimedia discussion<br>were never too active, and gxine has more dependencies which would have been needed in main
<br>- crazy stuff like javascript interpreter to use when controlled over lirc :) and I felt it was too late in the cycle<br>to push for more stuff in main.<br><br>I agree with going gxine though. At least it plays CDs and did not hang here with movies AFAIR.
<br><br>Jani