[Mageia-dev] default kde media player

[Remy CLOUARD]

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 ;)
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