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The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 25, 2012 12:45 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: The cake, it was a lie by sebas
Parent article: GStreamer 1.0 released

> VLC is enjoying a lot of work, and tends to give less headaches than GStreamer's backend.

So you have an abstraction layer that behaves differently depending on what it's abstracting?


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The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 25, 2012 14:57 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Yup. When gstreamer can't play a particular .mkv, there's very little phonon can do to prevent the abstraction from leaking.

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