[Bug 1355] Review request: minitube - A YouTube desktop client

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355





--- Comment #15 from Chen Lei <supercyper at 163.com>  2010-08-05 03:19:11 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> > The gstreamer backend is the recommended backend by the minitube author,
> 
> This is not true. The Minitube FAQ explicitly says that KDE users will prefer
> the Xine backend and doesn't recommend one backend over the other. And this is
> not Minitube's decision anyway, the default Phonon backend is a systemwide
> decision.
> 
> > also phonon itself don't depend on any backends explicitly. Phonon only depends
> > on a virtual provides phonon-backend.
> 
> We can change this if that's your problem (and in fact we probably will once we
> have phonon-backend-vlc, either to force xine to keep it as the default, or to
> force vlc for people who are upgrading if we switch the default).
> 
> > Actually, adding this package to rpmfusion can't help end users at all, because
> > it can't depends on needed external bits from rpmfusion(gstreamer-*
> > xine-lib-extras-freeworld).
> 
> Of course it can (and IMHO, MUST) depend on xine-lib-extras-freeworld (and
> probably phonon-backend-xine too, just to make sure that
> xine-lib-extras-freeworld has an effect). Making the package work out of the
> box with the default Phonon backend should be our top priority.
> 

If we can only use xine backend, then why we packaged the other phonon backend?
Work out of box is a goal, but not means we should force everybody to use the
same backend. Actually, most video players can't play all supported vedio
format by default. I think adding something to description or adding a
README.fedora will be more suitable. 


If you want to set xine as the default backend in KDE, I think the best way is
adding it to the default comps KDE group, then other desktop users can continue
to use other backend.


FYI, I'm not sure if minitube can readlly works with xine backend.

>From the author's comment yesterday
"Flavio says:
August 3, 2010 at 7:45 am

@Dirty Sanchez you mean: will someone ever fix the Xine engine (or Xine itself)
so that it works with YouTube videos?" 


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