https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438864
--- Comment #4 from b...@mogwai.be --- (In reply to Filipe Azevedo from comment #3) > Which media backend is behind Kast ? Is not QtMultimedia able to stream > directly ? Yes, it's using Qt Multimedia (which in turn uses gstreamer as backend on linux). About the streaming capabilities: as usual the answer is "it's complicated". :-) When I started developing Kasts about 1-2 years ago, it seemed that streaming was broken in the sense that you couldn't seek through the stream, which basically makes it impossible in an app that is centered around saving and syncing play positions. That's why I concentrated on implementing the download flow first. There are multiple problems with the QtMultimedia backend, so in parallel I am/was investigating alternatives. However, recently I tried streaming again, and it seems like those earlier problems have been solved now. I suspect it was actually solved in gstreamer rather than the QtMultimedia shim layer. I have a branch that implements functional streaming. Ironically, the only thing I'm currently a bit stuck on is figuring out how to expose this in the GUI. The streaming functionality should not interfere with the existing download flow, and it should also be clear to users whether there are streaming or playing a local file. Once those issues are solved, I'll merge it and then Kasts will have streaming capabilities. I suspect that will go into the next release. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
