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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 6th June 2016</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
  26 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">which
  27 multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
  28 MIME types</a>, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types
  29 the various players claimed support for.  The range was from 55 to 130
  30 MIME types.  I suspect most media formats are supported by all
  31 players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in
  32 their desktop files.  There are probably also some bogus MIME types
  33 listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.</p>
  34
  35 <p>Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
  36 the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
  37 and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
  38 favorite media player VLC.  The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
  39 yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
  40 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">Multimedia
  41 player MIME type support status</a> Debian wiki page.</p>
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  43 <p>The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?  It is VLC, followed by
  44 totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
  45 kmplayer.  I am sure some of the other players desktop files support
  46 several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc,
  47 toten and parole.</p>
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  49 <p>A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as
  50 supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their
  51 desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl,
  52 audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg,
  53 video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska,
  54 video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo.  Personally I find
  55 it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media
  56 players in Debian.  As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both
  57 formats.</p>
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