Title: The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian
-Tags: english, debian, multimedia, web
-Date: 2008-11-25 11:00
+Tags: english, debian, multimedia, web, debian edu
+Date: 2008-11-25 00:10
-Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
+<p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
default in Debian Edu. We need an embedded video playing plugin with
control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
video/ogg), just do not work. And simple formats like the
audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
totem and vlc plugins. I hope the situation will improve soon. No
-wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.
+wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
<p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin. It seem to
-be the only one fitting our needs. :/
+be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>