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@@ -6,6 +6,47 @@
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/
+
+ The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html
+ Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:50:00 +0200
+ <p>When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">which
+multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
+MIME types</a>, 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
+their desktop files. There are probably also some bogus MIME types
+listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
+the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
+and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
+favorite media player VLC. The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
+yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">Multimedia
+player MIME type support status</a> Debian wiki page.</p>
+
+<p>The new "best" multimedia player in Debian? It is VLC, followed by
+totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
+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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+
+
A program should be able to open its own files on Linux
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html
@@ -38,7 +79,7 @@ while back I discovered that the screencast recorder
gtk-recordmydesktop would save an Ogg Theora video file the KDE file
browser would refuse to open. No video player claimed to understand
such file. I tracked down the cause being <tt>file --mime-type</tt>
-returning the application/ogg mime type, which no video player I had
+returning the application/ogg MIME type, which no video player I had
installed listed as a MIME type they would understand. I asked for
<a href="http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=382">file to change its
behavour</a> and use the MIME type video/ogg instead. I also asked
@@ -57,10 +98,10 @@ how to fix the problem next time some program fail to load its files
from the file browser, here are some notes on how to fix it.</p>
<p>The file browsers in Debian in general operates on MIME types.
-There are two sources for a given files MIME type. The output from
+There are two sources for the MIME type of a given file. The output from
<tt>file --mime-type</tt> mentioned above, and the content of the
-shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file mime
-type is mapped to programs supporting the mime type, and this
+shared MIME type registry (under /usr/share/mime/). The file MIME
+type is mapped to programs supporting the MIME type, and this
information is collected from
<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec/">the
desktop files</a> available in /usr/share/applications/. If there is
@@ -68,10 +109,10 @@ one desktop file claiming support for the MIME type of the file, it is
activated when asking to open a given file. If there are more, one
can normally select which one to use by right-clicking on the file and
selecting the wanted one using 'Open with' or similar. In general
-this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good mime
+this work well. But it depend on each program picking a good MIME
type (preferably
<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml">a
-MIME type registered with IANA</a>), file and/or the shared mime
+MIME type registered with IANA</a>), file and/or the shared MIME
registry recognizing the file and the desktop file to list the MIME
type in its list of supported MIME types.</p>