Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th May 2006 15:41 UTC, submitted by JCooper
Gstreamer developer Christian Schaller explains why he thinks Phonon (announced a few days ago by the KDE project) is a broken wheel. "I have held back blogging about Phonon for some time to avoid flamewars, but I don't want to have efforts like OSDL delayed due to setups like Phonon being promoted or thought of as a workable solution for the issues faced. Let me start of with a brief introduction to the area of multimedia frameworks."
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Christian is not talking about the "Average Joe", read again, the "average" programmer can understand any sound server abstraction be it GStreamer or what ever.
Nope, but there will be many people who do understand that Xine works and GStreamer doesn't, or NMM does what they want and GStreamer doesn't, and ulimately it will be those people and not you or Christian Schaller who will determine the direction things go in and what the 'Average Joe' mostly uses.