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 <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 > 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 ;) -- Rémy CLOUARD () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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