Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Gapless/crossfade playback in svn trunk

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:01 +0200, Christophe Dehais wrote:
> Something questions me however, why is this designed as a separate
> gstreamer backend instead of extending the current one ?
> Is it meant to replace the default backend when it reaches
> feature/stability parity w.r.t. current backend ?

Trying to extend the current one would mean that most things become "if
(xfade) {xfade code} else {old code}", as there isn't a huge amount of
code overlap between the two.


>From memory, the cross-fading backing had feature-parity with the
current backing, but there are several know bugs and stability issues.
Once it stabilises, it's probably worth replacing the current one.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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