[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Fri Mar 11 00:44:22 CET 2011

Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 23:38 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+In the case of gstreamer, there is packagekit and on demand installation
+of codecs.
+
+> 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...).
+
+Well, yes, that's also our duty to others free software project to offer
+a cohesive and integrated system respecting their choice.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+