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  10                 <title>The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  15 Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  16 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  17 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  18 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  19 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  20 notes are available on
  21 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;the
  22 Debian wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  23 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  24 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  25 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  26 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  27 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn&#39;t supported by the
  28 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  29 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.
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  31 &lt;p&gt;For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  32 be the only one fitting our needs. :/
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