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+ <title>Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description>
+<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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<title>DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen</title>
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- <title>Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description>
-<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>
-</description>
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