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+  <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</a></div>
+  <div class="date">2010-11-27 11:30</div>
+  <div class="body">
+<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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+  </div>
+ </div>
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   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen</a></div>
   <div class="date">2010-11-23 14:15</div>
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   <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen</a></div>
   <div class="date">2010-11-23 14:15</div>


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-  <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html">Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</a></div>
-  <div class="date">2010-11-07 11:45</div>
-  <div class="body">
-<p>Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a> DVD, which is
-supposed provide a school with all the services and user applications
-needed on the pupils computer network has always been hard.  Even
-schools without Internet connections should be able to get Debian Edu
-working using this DVD.</p>
-
-<p>The job became a lot harder when apt and aptitude started
-installing recommended packages by default.  We want the same set of
-packages to be installed when using the DVD and the netinst CD, and
-that means all recommended packages need to be on the DVD.  I created
-a patch for debian-cd in <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/601203">BTS
-report #601203</a> to do this, and since this change was applied to
-the Debian Edu DVD build, we have been seriously short on space.</p>
-
-<p>A few days ago we decided to drop blender, wxmaxima and kicad from
-the default installation to save space on the DVD, believing that
-those needing these applications are few and can get them from the
-Debian archive.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, I had a look what source packages to see which packages
-were using most space.  A few large packages are well know;
-openoffice.org, openclipart and fluid-soundfont.  But I also
-discovered that lilypond used 106 MiB and fglrx-driver used 53 MiB.
-The lilypond package is pulled in as a dependency for rosegarden, and
-when looking a bit closer I discovered that 99 MiB of the 106 MiB were
-the documentation package, which is recommended by the binary package.
-I decided to drop this documentation package from our DVD, as most of
-our users will use the GUI front-ends and do not need the lilypond
-documentation.  Similarly, I dropped the non-free fglrx-driver package
-which might be installed by d-i when its hardware is detected, as the
-free X driver should work.</p>
-
-<p>With this change, we finally got space for the LXDE and Gnome
-desktop packages as well as the language specific packages making the
-DVD more useful again.</p>
-</div>
-  <div class="tags">
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-   
-   Tags: <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/nuug">nuug</a>. 
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 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 
 
 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 

-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (11)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (12)</a></li>

 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (10)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (10)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (42)</a></li>
+ <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>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (1)</a></li>
 


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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
 

- <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>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (91)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (91)</a></li>
 


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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (15)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (16)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (1)</a></li>
 

- <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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