VLC phonon backend

[jech]

Hello,

I just read at AmaroK blog that the VLC phonon backend is stable and ready to be used. I would like to use it on Windows, since the DirectShow backend doesn't work at all for me. Unfortunately I have no experience with compiling C/C++ code. Does anybody of you has by chance the VLC Phonon backend win32 binaries? Thanks a lot.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Not yet, but there should be some with VLC 1.1 release.
Else, try to contact kde-windows devs.

[jech]

Is there any news on this now that VLC 1.1 RC is out? Thank you.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I can provide some, yes.

[jech]

That would be great. I'm trying to create an audio player in PyQt which will be using Phonon. But the included DirectShow backend doesn't work. So I would like to replace it with VLC backend. Could you give me some advice on how to do that?

I know there is a directory ..\PyQt4\plugins\phonon_backend which contains file phonon_ds94.dll. I believe this is the DirectShow backend and I need to replace it.

[jech]

On winkde.org I found a package phonon-vlc-mingw4-20100605-bin.tar.bz2. It contains file phonon_vlc.dll. I put that file in ..PyQt4\plugins\phonon_backend directory and removed the phonon_ds94.dll DirectShow backend library. But now PyQt complains that ic can't find any Phonon backend. What else do I need to do to make it work (of course I have VLC 1.1RC installed)?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Ask on #kde-windows IRC