[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Thu Mar 10 20:28:37 CET 2011

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:17:28AM +0100, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
+> 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
+I would prefer vlc too, since it has been rewritten in Qt (was
+wxWidgets).
+
+I don’t know if that counts, but it’s also one of the most popular open
+source application in the windows world like firefox and openoffice, so
+newcomers would not be lost.
+
+The issue I have with vlc is its playlist handling which I don’t like,
+but that might just be an option to activate.
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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