When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out which multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats / -MIME types, I was a bit surprised how different sets of MIME types +MIME types, 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 @@ -26,17 +26,12 @@ 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.
-The best multimedia player in Debian? It is totem, followed by -parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and -kmplayer. Time for the other players to update their announced MIME -support? - -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 +
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.