Phonon/Vision&Scope

Le Problem

Background

Qt applications have no way to easily present multimedia content in a cross-platform manner. They need either to write support for every platform they want to cater to, or leave some platforms unsupported.

Users

• Qt Applications: Few non-Qt dependencies.
• KDE Applications: Stable API. Easy to use. Simply works.
• Music Players: Play music files. Queuing. Gapless playback. Equalizer. Visualizations.
• Video Players: Play video files. Display videos in their Qt graphics system of choice.
• Simple Games: Low latency.
• Simple Multimedia Applications: Play music and video files. Easy to use.

Stakeholders

• KDE: stable API, reliability
• Qt: portability
• Development Gang: fun