fudadmin Messages: 1321 Registered: November 2005 Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
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what I wanted to avoid - gstreamer... not very likable (mildly speaking) by me (and I think by others) g which...
and also from wikipedia:
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GStreamer has been criticized by KDE developers for not offering a stable ABI that is guaranteed to be maintained for at least five years after KDE4 is released, which makes it unsuitable as the standard multimedia framework in KDE4 and could prevent its inclusion in the Linux Standard Base. This problem eventually led to the development of Phonon, a simplified multimedia framework for KDE4, which would provide wrappers for other multimedia frameworks, including GStreamer.[5]