Originally posted by Craig73
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Phonon is great for application developers. All they have to do is tell Phonon "play this video" or "play this sound", regardless of what the video is, what the sound is, or (and this is a biggie) what platform it's on. KDE runs on Linux, Solaris, *BSD, OS X and Windows.
Not every Windows user has Gstreamer on their system. I'm willing to bet the same holds true for OS X users. Rather than have ever application developer port from Gstreamer (Linux) to Direct Show (Windows) and/or Quicktime (OS X) to have cross-platform apps, they write for Phonon. And then the Phonon dev's (and ONLY them) worry about coding hooks for different back-ends.
I'm not saying "Phonon is the greatest thing ever!" But, compared to aRTs, it is a Good Thing. It's a step in the right direction.
What I AM saying is that if everyone writes their applications for Gstreamer, Gstreamer won't magically be a better system. It'll stick be an underperforming multimedia system.
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