[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Thu Mar 10 18:10:36 CET 2011

On 10 March 2011 08:41, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 08:55 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+>> 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?
+>
+> I do think that no one mentioned 2 others importants factors :
+> - maintainability ( ie, something with a sane way of doing thing, that
+> exclude stuff based on libffmpeg ), that also mean a sane packaging
+> ( ie, being able to separate plugins is IMHO better , especially for a
+> patent minefield ).
+>
+> - security, again, no one took that in account ( given
+> http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/zzuf/bugs , I am again not very keen on relying
+> on xine or mplayer personally )
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+I would vote for VLC, firstly because it plays pretty much everything,
+its qt based, and finally becuase it is platform independant, every OS
+seems to have VLC.
+