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VLC and MPlayer backends for Phonon
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Code License: GNU Lesser General Public License
Labels: Phonon, KDE, VLC, MPlayer, Qt, audio, video
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Project owners:
  tkrotoff
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lukas.durfina

VLC and MPlayer backends for Phonon

Phonon is the cross platform multimedia API for KDE 4 and Qt 4.4. This project is about creating VLC and MPlayer backends for Phonon.

News

2008/05/29

I applied for a KDE svn account (tkrotoff), so expect to see VLC and MPlayer backends on http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/phonon/ (or somewhere else) soon. This repo will be kept for experimentation (QuarkPlayer) and documentation.

2008/05/16

0.1.0 released!

Get the right package, install latest MPlayer & VLC-0.9 then run the examples. I recommend mediaplayer in general and multiplevideoplayer for DVD/MKV chapters/titles/subtitles (MPlayer backend only).

For the Windows setup, you need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package.

By default it is the MPlayer backend that is used, if you want to use the VLC backend, just delete phonon_backend/phonon_mplayer.(dll|so)

For the source package, do a svn checkout of revision 152.

The Phonon library given in the package is a patched version with better titles/chapters handling. phonon-vlc-mplayer is of course compatible with latest Phonon SVN with a simple #define

Any comment are more than welcome!

2008/03/23

phonon-mplayer starts to look very good, I've added subtiles/chapters/angles/titles/audio stream support.

2008/03/09

Current status: - libvlc is unfortunalty not fully tested and debugged. - libsmplayer from the SMPlayer project is to much "SMPlayer" oriented and was not design to be a library. So my current focus is the MPlayer backend and to create a small libmplayer.

Status

VLC Phonon backend

VLC Phonon backend uses libvlc (http://wiki.videolan.org/Libvlc) in order to control VLC. It currently works under Windows and Linux by loading libvlc-control.(dll|so) at runtime.

MPlayer Phonon backend

It relies on a stripped libsmplayer provided by the SMPlayer project http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

Screenshots

Windows XP/Qt-4.4.1-snapshot - MediaPlayer/phonon-vlc

KDE-4.0.3/Qt-4.3.4 - System Settings/phonon-vlc

KDE-4.0.3/Qt-4.3.4 - Dragon Player-2.0.1/phonon-vlc