[gst-devel] GStreamer Summit during GCDS

[Stefan Kost]

Colin Guthrie schrieb:
> 'Twas brillig, and Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller at 30/06/09 09:17 
> did gyre and gimble:
>> It will be an informal gathering where people should feel free to do
>> lightning talk like presentations on multimedia related subjects aimed
>> at developers. There will also be some general discussion about our
>> GStreamer 1.0 roadmap, following on from Jan Schmidts talk on Sunday.
> 
> While I sadly can't attend the summit, I'd be really interested if some 
> gstreamer+Qt/KDE guys could find some time for a confab.
> 
> I'd really like to see Phonon on KDE using the phonon-gstreamer backend 
> if possible, but there are several issues to sort out. Having a 
> gstreamer mentory/guru would surely help here!
> 
> IMO having gstreamer as the defacto backend on KDE would solve a lot of 
> bugs that are being blamed on pulseaudio right now which really boil 
> down to Xine's poor support for the pulseaudio output layer (as Xine 
> seems to have become the standard phonon backend right now).
> 
> Hopefully the Gnome+KDE crossover will let this kind of meeting go through.
> 
> :)
> 

In case anyone knows who is working on the phonon-gst backend, drag him here.
We'll help for sure, but right now we have no clue who is working on it.

Stefan