One more thing about Xine: In a default install of Ubuntustudio, I was
able to play H264/mp4 video in Xine without installing extra codecs,
thanks to the ffmpeg version used.
If there is a policy that gstreamer-ffmpeg can't be shipped by default but
the underlying ffmpeg can be, that's inconsistant. I know that sort of
decision gets made upstream, but it creates a default install that
can't do it's default job if enforced strictly, due to the nature of current
cameras and audio recorders.
A multimedia distro without codecs can't play most media distributed by
windows users or commericial websites. Much more seriously, it also
can't play ORIGINAL media produced by a majority of midrange video
cameras and even audio recorders.
On 06/02/2013 at 11:23 AM, Len Ovens l...@ovenwerks.net wrote:
A few releases ago when we switched to xfce, we got the default
Xubuntu
video player Parole. At the time we found Parole didn't know how
to set
the aspect ratio and so we added totem instead. With the thought
that it
was what most of Ubuntu used. Somehow we have ended up with Xine
installed
as well.. probably it comes with some of the libs we use.
In any case, for the past few releases totem seems not have worked
for a
number of people. It crashes on startup. So it has been a good
thing that
we had Xine as a backup :P
In the mean time, Parole (like thunar) has been fixed and works on
anything I have tried it on.
We should perhaps switch back to Parole, A) because it works and B)
because that will keep us more in line with Xubuntu and their
testing
should cover the use of this video player with XFCE. (It may be
that Totem
works fine with a full gnome/unity setup)
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www.OvenWerks.net
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