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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from May 2016</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from May 2016</description>
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  10                 <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
  15 Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  16
  17 &lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
  18 plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
  19 Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
  20 for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
  21 plugin supported most file formats / media types.
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
  23 result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
  24 not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
  25 these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
  26 players.&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
  29 player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
  30 Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
  32 desktop file&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
  33 of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
  34 only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
  35 two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
  36 compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
  37 instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
  38 support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
  41 &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
  42 table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
  43 in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
  44 listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
  47 parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
  48 kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
  49 support?&lt;/p&gt;
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  54                 <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
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  57                 <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  58                 <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/&quot;&gt;The Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, a
  60 handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled.  I
  61 would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)&lt;/p&gt;
  62
  63 &lt;p&gt;The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
  64 plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5&quot;
  65 LCD touch screen.  The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
  66 day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
  67 confirming this.  The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
  68 last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
  69 production started.&lt;/p&gt;
  70
  71 &lt;p&gt;As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
  72 Debian.  Please let me know if you know of any others.  Is it the
  73 first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?&lt;/p&gt;
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