Re: PulseAudio and Phonon?

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Re: PulseAudio and Phonon?
by bonybrown on Wednesday 31/Oct/2007, @19:38

Phonon provides an API to applications for playing sound and video.
It in turn has backends that actually do the decoding and playing.
One of the backends that exists uses xine and xine-lib to do the decoding and playing....so when used with this backend, Phonon will support any file type that xine can play.
There's a backend for gStreamer that's in progress. I presume that for KDE apps on Mac and Windows there will need to be an appropriate backend built for those too (perhaps the xine-lib version will just work on those platforms...I don't know)

Each of the backends will have it's own configuration as to how it gets the data to your ears - they will support whatever sound-servers or devices that the backend is built on....so if you want to use pulseaudio, and the backend you're using supports pulseaudio for output, it should be possible.

I know that xine supports pulseaudio (because I use it with an LTSP setup ) so everything should "just work"!

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