[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Thu Mar 10 23:10:59 CET 2011

When you say "media" player, does it concern stricty video playing or
+should the default media player be suitable for both video and audio?
+Personally I like to keep these two separated, I feel that a
+specialised player will best fulfil its purpose than a multimedia
+player like Windows Media Player.
+
+I love to use VLC to play videos, because it's simple, work out of the
+box and efficiently. I have some issues with it (it doesn't manage to
+play some videos with recent hi-res codecs), but I think that is
+related to my crappy hardware - actually my whole Mandriva install is
+crumbling apart. When I have an issue with VLC, I use mplayer
+directly. VLC is one of the most popular video players in France
+(maybe because the VideoLAN project began in Paris?), but I don't know
+if it is widely used in the rest of the world.
+I agree that the play-list of VLC is a bit strange, but since I don't
+use it to listen to music that's not a big problem for me.
+
+For playing music, I use Clementine, for I liked Amarok 1.4 but I
+can't stand Amarok 2.
+Before I discovered Clementine, I used Quod Libet but I think that it
+is more suited to a GNOME environment.
+
+Cheers,
+Rémi / Akien.
+