Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 23:38 +0100, JA Magallón a écrit : > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:10:59 +0100, Rémi Verschelde <rversche...@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