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<H1>[Mageia-dev] default kde media player</H1>
<B>Remy CLOUARD</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 11 16:45:53 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:44:22AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 23:38 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit :
</I>><i> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:10:59 +0100, Rémi Verschelde <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">rverschelde at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > > When you say "media" player, does it concern stricty video playing or
</I>><i> > > should the default media player be suitable for both video and audio?
</I>><i> > > Personally I like to keep these two separated, I feel that a
</I>><i> > > specialised player will best fulfil its purpose than a multimedia
</I>><i> > > player like Windows Media Player.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Just a note for all this discussion, it is just my point of view...
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > All desktops have their own 'standard' or 'official' media players.
</I>><i> > I will talk about gnome, you can translate it to kde, for which I have
</I>><i> > no idea of which will be the equivalents.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > In Gnome, the official video player is totem, and the official
</I>><i> > backend is gstreamer. So both things should be installed by default
</I>><i> > and with all the codecs needed. if someone says 'I want support for
</I>><i> > XViD in the default Gnome install', well, you should install the needed
</I>><i> > gstreamer module. So everything should be supported by the standard
</I>><i> > official player.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> In the case of gstreamer, there is packagekit and on demand installation
</I>><i> of codecs.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > After that, you can install other players, better if they fit the
</I>><i> > desktop. For example, after totem I would vote for gnome-mplayer,
</I>><i> > the Gnome front end for mplayer. And after that, other 'foreign'
</I>><i> > players like VLC or the like.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > So what would I put in distrib ISO ? totem and main bunch of
</I>><i> > gstreamer codecs, that carries no dicussion, and if there is still
</I>><i> > space, gnome-mplayer and mplayer.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I suppose the same can be thought for KDE. Install whatever the
</I>><i> > default phonon-based player is, and if there is space, others.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I think nowadays the default official players are capable of playing
</I>><i> > the main formats everybody will use (XVid, DiVX, h264, mpeg, mp3 or
</I>><i> > ac3 audio, etc...).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Well, yes, that's also our duty to others free software project to offer
</I>><i> a cohesive and integrated system respecting their choice.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Michael Scherer
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</I>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 ;)
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