[Mageia-discuss] Is Totem the worst video player?

Fri Nov 16 03:19:17 CET 2012

2012/11/15 Pierre Jarillon <jarillon at abul.org>
+
+> Hi,
+>
+> As usual, I have burned a DVD and made an install of Mageia 3 alpha3.
+> No problem but some improvements could be useful.
+>
+> Then, I have tried to read some various videos without any success with the
+> default player. See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8088
+>
+> It is better with Dragon except than 16/9 videos are displayed at 4/3 ratio
+> and some videos prefer to stop after few seconds.
+>
+> I have installed vlc which works very well for each type of video.
+> IMO, vlc must be the default player when installed, Dragon, the second
+> choice
+> and totem, the last... or removed.
+>
+
+Totem is using gstreamer so you might have a look on gstreamer plugins
+installed.
+Dragon is using phonon & by default phonon-gstreamer (so it should face the
+same issue as totem), but it can also use phonon-vlc (which should provide
+the same support as vlc).
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Balcaen John
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