[Mageia-dev] Video players

Sat Nov 24 17:25:02 CET 2012

On 11/24/2012 01:28 AM, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
+> For Mageia 3 it is necessary to read all kinds of videos.
+> I have a set of video to test the distro.
+>
+> Totem is out of service but its is however the defaut reader...
+> For some videos, Dragon is not shown in the list of players but works.
+> http://vimeo.com/53980967 from vimeo works with Mageia 1 but not in cauldron.
+> VLC works always.
+>
+> My suggestions are:
+> - When VLC is loaded, it must become the default video viewer.
+> - For each video type, define the viewer (Totem, Dragon) which works.
+>
+
+Some points, specially related to Totem that is what I mainly use:
+
+- Totem/GStreamer plays all kind of videos I have given it, mainly
+   divx/mp4/h264/mpeg2 with mp3/ac3 audio in avi/mp4/mkv containers.
+   It all depends on your gstreamer being correctly installed.
+
+- Videos like http://vimeo.com/53980967 are just FLASH, they do not
+   depend on Totem,VLC o Dragon. It works for me in Cauldron, as
+   YouTube both in Flash or HTML5 formats.
+
+- Most desktops DEs have a native player (Totem for Gnome, Dragon for
+   KDE, Parole for XFCE, ...). That should work and be the default
+   out of the box, that is what is most integrated with each DE.
+   Suppose that Totem was the absolutely best player regarding
+   fomats. What would you think KDE users would say if it was made
+   the default for KDE, forcing them to install half Gnome to see
+   videos ?
+
+- Many desktops have some kind of 2nd-to-best player. Perhaps VLC
+   is a good option for KDE (it is Qt based anyways), but for Gnome
+   or XFCE (GTK based) the best next option IMHO is Gnome MPlayer
+   (as good as as VLC).
+
+So the only problem with Totem is probably urpmi requires/suggests
+missing to guarantee that is plays all audio/video formats, or
+at least most used. And I suppose you can have the same problems with
+Phonon (or whatever is the KDE equivalent to GStreamer).
+And wrt to copyrighted decoders, the problem is the same for all,
+you have to use Tainted repos to get a GStreamer/VLC/MPlayer that
+decodes them.
+
+If you can post your video test collection somewhere, I can try to
+see if totem works for me with them.
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+