[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Thu Mar 10 23:38:56 CET 2011

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:10:59 +0100, Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 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.
+> 
+
+Just a note for all this discussion, it is just my point of view...
+
+All desktops have their own 'standard' or 'official' media players.
+I will talk about gnome, you can translate it to kde, for which I have
+no idea of which will be the equivalents.
+
+In Gnome, the official video player is totem, and the official
+backend is gstreamer. So both things should be installed by default
+and with all the codecs needed. if someone says 'I want support for
+XViD in the default Gnome install', well, you should install the needed
+gstreamer module. So everything should be supported by the standard
+official player.
+
+After that, you can install other players, better if they fit the
+desktop. For example, after totem I would vote for gnome-mplayer,
+the Gnome front end for mplayer. And after that, other 'foreign'
+players like VLC or the like.
+
+So what would I put in distrib ISO ? totem and main bunch of
+gstreamer codecs, that carries no dicussion, and if there is still
+space, gnome-mplayer and mplayer.
+
+I suppose the same can be thought for KDE. Install whatever the
+default phonon-based player is, and if there is space, others.
+
+I think nowadays the default official players are capable of playing
+the main formats everybody will use (XVid, DiVX, h264, mpeg, mp3 or
+ac3 audio, etc...).
+
+> 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.
+
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \               Software is like sex:
+                                         \         It's better when it's free
+