[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Fri Mar 11 00:15:03 CET 2011

+
+Quote: jamagallon wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 23:38
+
+> 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.
+
+The 'offical' DE players are not necessarily the best choice.
+Often they are just an afterthought maintained by only few programmers
+without the same dedication as those people that maintain independent
+media players (like mplayer, vlc, xine).
+
+I have to say that vlc could be a good default choice as a video media
+player for Mageia (for all desktops), especially as it's well known in the
+Windows world too, so ideal for Linux newbies too.
+
+I also think it's best to have a default video player and a separate
+default audio player since IMHO there is no single player that is really
+good for both.
+
+My favourite audio player is Audacious.
+
+> 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...).
+
+It is very unlikely that Mageia will have all those codecs by default,
+since Mageia decided to only include codecs that are safe everywhere in
+the world.
+Personally I would have thought it would have been a great selling point
+for Mageia if it had included by default all codecs that are safe in
+France, taking advantage of the friendlier patent laws in Europe and
+therefore gained a competitive advantage compared to other US
+based/oriented distros.
+
+By the way aren't mpeg2 and ac3 covered by patents in the US too?
+I'm surprised these are included in Mageia.
+
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