Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser +plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by +default in Debian Edu. We need an embedded video playing plugin with +control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming +all the multimedia content available on the web. The test results and +notes are available on +the +Debian wiki. I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to +fill this need. My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really +bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages. A lot of the MIME +types I would expect to work with any free software player (like +video/ogg), just do not work. And simple formats like the +audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the +totem and vlc plugins. I hope the situation will improve soon. No +wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.
+ +For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin. It seem to +be the only one fitting our needs. :/
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