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+		<title>Why isn&#39;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>
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+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
+mplayer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;last
+tested the browser plugins&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/P&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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