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  20   <div class="title">The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</div>
  21   <div class="date">2008-11-25 00:10</div>
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  23 <p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  24 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  25 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  26 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  27 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  28 notes are available on
  29 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
  30 Debian wiki</a>.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  31 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  32 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  33 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  34 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  35 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
  36 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  37 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
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  39 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  40 be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>
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