X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/409f68754281acf412596e2406746015b02b3a0c..025890e5a56092026cf01dd3b49126bf03a2e273:/blog/index.rss?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 7c1c1e68ff..1620380f70 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,46 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html + Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:30:00 +0100 + +<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> + + + DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html @@ -1073,50 +1113,5 @@ ting, så et slikt lovverk i Norge tror jeg hadde vært nyttig.</p> - - Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html - Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100 - -<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> - - -