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Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 27 14:40:33 UTC 2006


Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:42:19 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
>> "usable" is pretty relative here. Yes, it supports Ogg Vorbis, but
>> otherwise...
> 
> What I meant (I can not check at the moment because just now amarok
> is non-installable due to a missing HelixPlayer :) that there simply
> are no other choices for the output engine in amarok apart from
> Helix since gstreamer went out at the last major release.
> 
> I may be wrong, maybe gstreamer has been put back in the meantime.

We are pretty close to all the applications in Fedora using a single 
media framework and that makes it quite easy to add support for 
additional formats which is a huge win. I hope Amarok supports gstreamer 
or someone will have to maintain Helix Player in Fedora Extras for Amarok.

Rahul




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