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) > > >-- >Len Ovens >www.OvenWerks.net > > >-- >Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list >Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel