We have done it again; a new Phonon-VLC release is ready with plenty of rewrites, bug fixes and other stuff.
An overview of what has been done:
- OpenGL surface painting now works properly (used in for example Gwenview)
- Fixed the hue adjustment
- Fixes to errors found by the static code analysis tool Krazy
- Fixes for compatibility with newer VLC versions
- Blu-Ray™ support
- QML support
- Lots of fixes for crashes, memory leaks, etc.
As usual it is available through the KDE infrastructure:
http://download.kde.org/stable/phonon/phonon-backend-vlc/0.6.0/src/phonon-backend-vlc-0.6.0.tar.xz
From the KDE Multimedia team; enjoy!
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Hello,
thanks for this awesome project. I’m able to use it through a regular VideoWidget, and it works really great. Do you have any example on how to use it in a QML scene?
I’m trying to make an media player application with pyQt/pyside and the phonon library. Currently I’m using the default backend (phonon_ds94.dll). I would like to use the phonon_vlc.dll one but I don’t know how to make the switch on winXP. Any one have an idea ?