Re: [xine-devel] the competition

[Christophe T. <hf...@fr...>]

Le Mardi 09 Ao=FBt 2005 20:29, Michael Roitzsch a =E9crit=A0:
> Hi team,
>
> it caught my attention that the latest release of Kaffeine now has a
> gstreamer backend next to the xine-lib one.
> I started some quick=20
> research on gstreamer and found a lot of statements like "gstreamer
> is definitely the future of video on Linux". From my biased
> perspective, around the xine-lib 1.0 preparations, there was a lot of
> excitement around xine and a lot of projects were going for our lib.
> Now this excitement seems to have moved towards gstreamer. Why? Have
> I missed something? Did we do something wrong? Maybe xine-lib did not
> evolve fast enough over the last months? I am not panicing and I
> don't think xine will become obsolete (at least not yet), but the
> (new?) competition is there, so I would like to hear some feelings
> and opinions from others on how we should deal with this.
>
> Michael

This does not mean that xine-lib is obsolete. It's still the default Kaffei=
ne=20
backend and IMHO will remain so for a while. At that time, gstreamer is far=
=20
from xine. So, keep up the excellent work, and remember that we are still=20
waiting for this superior kernel ...

But yes, xine can still evolve :

=2Dmaking seeking faster (esp for audio : give amarok+arts a try)
=2Dfading audio tracks (again : amarok+arts)
=2Dand a very special feature i would like, (but do not believe that much:)=
 :=20
the ability to play the next mrl without discontinuity (like if it was the=
=20
same). For example for live cdda tracks, or (in my case) a dvb stream throu=
gh=20
a pipe followed by a regular file (timeshifting!).


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Christophe Thommeret