[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

Fri Mar 11 16:45:53 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:44:22AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 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
+> 
+Ok, so let’s drop firefox too, install epiphany and konqueror instead.
+(maybe those are already installed aside firefox ?)
+
+If we follow one way, let’s be consistent with that ;)
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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