[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Thu Mar 10 09:17:28 CET 2011

2011/3/10 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>
+
+> There was already a discussion about that in the alpha2 iso thread but I
+> think
+> it's better to discuss this in a thread of its own.
+>
+> Most people "voted" for smplayer in the other thread, which would be fine
+> with
+> me. It's qt based (nothing against gtk, but using a gtk based application
+> as
+> default in kde is just weird. try to do it the other way arround and you'll
+> be
+> lynched by gnome fans), its backend mplayer is a powerfull player.
+> But: I'm having a strange thing about it on my Mageia box: I start it, I
+> open
+> an ogg file, I play it. I close smplayer, start it again and it won't play
+> the
+> same ogg file anymore. I close smplayer again rm ~/.config/smplayer start
+> it
+> again, it plays my file and so on. Anybody else having the same thing? Is
+> it a
+> bug or just pebcak?
+>
+> Others preffered dragon player, which is KDE's default. We could but I
+> don't
+> really like it, since it's a bit too simplistic in my eyes.
+>
+> I personally prefer kaffeine. It's working just fine for me, has many more
+> options then dragon player. But some of you told it's not stable enough (in
+> what way?) and some don't like it because it's not using phonon but libxine
+> directly.
+>
+> The next option would be totem which I hate (just a personal thing). And
+> it's
+> a gtk application which I consider weird as default in KDE.
+>
+> Then there is kmplayer, I haven't really used it till now, but it's working
+> and it's offering you playback of local files, optical media and tv (which
+> I
+> couldn't test due to not existing hardware.
+>
+> Next option would be xine-ui which definitely is looking a bit old
+> fashioned.
+>
+> Did I forget anything? And what do you think?
+>
+> Oliver
+>
+
+VLC would be a nice solution if it had an oxygen theme
+
+-- 
+Dimitrios Glentadakis
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