Re: Video under Linux - mess and frustration

[Andrew Cady <d@jerkface.net>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:28:53AM +0100, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote:

> My suggestion is: Let us create ONE fully featured media player with
> ONE multimedia backend/framework. Let this player be part of the
> KDE/Gnome project to prevent orphaning and underdevelopment (like
> Kaffeine). Let there be no or very limited configuration choices
> concerning frameworks/sinks/blaaaah... otherwise it will never work.

Of course, what we want is *one* backend that supports everything.  But
this is what *every* backend is already trying to do.  It is not so
easy!