Bug 189033

Summary:	xine backend provide more options
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Phonon	Reporter:	Daniel Boff <dan.boff>
Component:	Xine backend	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	deans.mail.list, frederic, loacoon, martin.sandsmark, mursusoft
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.3.0 (KDE 4.2.0)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Daniel Boff 2009-04-07 15:14:25 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

In kdesettings/multimedia you can hardly set anything for the xine backend.
to configurate my xine backend I usually have to open xine player, make all my configurations there and copy the one I need to ".config/kde-org/Phonon-Xine.xine.conf"
the worst part is, that "Phonon-Xine.xine.conf" doesn't list all options which are available for the backend. for instance in the config file there's no 
"audio.output.speaker_arrangement:"
so if you can't set the speaker_arrangement to 
audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Pass Through
without knowing, that this option even exists. This is worse than it might sound, because without this option you can't get dolby digital/dts through spdif if you're using a kdemultimedia app like dragonplayer.

In my opinion the xine configuration dialog should provide all options for xine (like in xine player). this sould also solve "Bug 187245"

Comment 1 mursusoft 2009-04-16 23:49:14 UTC

Also it would be quite good thing to be able to configure video output.

Reason being that xv works crappy (scaling issues, tearing issues, washed out colors...) with atleast ati cards (gl works great). Also there are host of other issues with playback on external devices and so on with xv.

All in all defaulting to xv and not being able to change video-out driver (which can be done with almost every other "player" or "engine") renders phonon-xine pretty much useless for video playback here and probably for somebody else.

Comment 2 Rosetzky Cedric 2009-05-01 02:36:25 UTC

Resovling this report would also revolve this one : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171955, which was posted ~6 monthes and never even had any answer. Sometimes it feels like KDE devs doesn't even care about bug reports..... or bugs at all.
But, instead of a bug report, maybe you should make a feature request. ;)

Comment 3 Martin Sandsmark 2009-11-08 13:59:00 UTC

I'm working on an "advanced" configuration GUI similar to that one found in the xine player.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-08 15:37:53 UTC

This is a wish.

Comment 5 Frédéric Branger 2009-11-12 09:39:06 UTC

I agree.

Having to research to find out that a specific Xine Phonon config file in addition to the old ~/.Xine is quite annoying.

You will have lots of triaging when the advanced UI will be implemented : it will solve automatically most of all the AC3/DTS/DD passthrough related bugs you can find here :)

Comment 6 Dario Andres 2010-01-31 14:45:59 UTC

*** Bug 213473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Harald Sitter 2011-01-13 21:54:31 UTC

The xine backend is running out of maintenance and wishlist items will no longer be implemented.
Therefore I am closing this bug report. Thanks anyway.