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                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
 
        
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+               <title>The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html&quot;&gt;which
+multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
+MIME types&lt;/a&gt;, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types
+the various players claimed support for.  The range was from 55 to 130
+MIME types.  I suspect most media formats are supported by all
+players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in
+their desktop files.  There are probably also some bogus MIME types
+listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
+the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
+and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
+favorite media player VLC.  The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
+yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;Multimedia
+player MIME type support status&lt;/a&gt; Debian wiki page.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?  It is VLC, followed by
+totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
+kmplayer.  I am sure some of the other players desktop files support
+several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc,
+toten and parole.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as
+supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their
+desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl,
+audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg,
+video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska,
+video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo.  Personally I find
+it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media
+players in Debian.  As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both
+formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
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                <title>A program should be able to open its own files on Linux</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</link>        
@@ -38,7 +79,7 @@ while back I discovered that the screencast recorder
 gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file
 browser would refuse to open.  No video player claimed to understand
 such file.  I tracked down the cause being &lt;tt&gt;file --mime-type&lt;/tt&gt;
-returning the application/ogg mime type, which no video player I had
+returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had
 installed listed as a MIME type they would understand.  I asked for
 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=382&quot;&gt;file to change its
 behavour&lt;/a&gt; and use the MIME type video/ogg instead.  I also asked
@@ -59,8 +100,8 @@ from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types.
 There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file.  The output from
 &lt;tt&gt;file --mime-type&lt;/tt&gt; mentioned above, and the content of the
-shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/).  The file mime
-type is mapped to programs supporting the mime type, and this
+shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/).  The file MIME
+type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this
 information is collected from
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/&quot;&gt;the
 desktop files&lt;/a&gt; available in /usr/share/applications/.  If there is
@@ -68,10 +109,10 @@ one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it is
 activated when asking to open a given file.  If there are more, one
 can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and
 selecting the wanted one using &#39;Open with&#39; or similar.  In general
-this work well.  But it depend on each program picking a good mime
+this work well.  But it depend on each program picking a good MIME
 type (preferably
 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml&quot;&gt;a
-MIME type registered with IANA&lt;/a&gt;), file and/or the shared mime
+MIME type registered with IANA&lt;/a&gt;), file and/or the shared MIME
 registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME
 type in its list of supported MIME types.&lt;/p&gt;