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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 sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</div>
  24       <div class="date">25th November 2008</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  26 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  27 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  28 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  29 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  30 notes are available on
  31 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
  32 Debian wiki</a>.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  33 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  34 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  35 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  36 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  37 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
  38 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  39 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
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  41 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  42 be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>
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