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+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a>
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+ <div class="date">
+  2010-11-27 11:30
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+<p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
+presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
+Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
+to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
+gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly the failure
+model and trust.  When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
+reporting the problem.  When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
+just hangs.  The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
+
+<p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
+mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a>.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
+plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
+not very good.  For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
+is no way for the user to pause the video.  Also, when I
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
+tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
+failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked.  If
+the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
+package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P>
+
+<p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
+annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
+keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
+shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
+For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode.  I
+wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
+window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
+the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
+web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
+what is going on.</p>
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+  Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (43)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (50)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (51)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (71)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (72)</a></li>
 
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (10)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (11)</a></li>
 
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (16)</a></li>
 
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (13)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (14)</a></li>
 
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