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15 <a href=
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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date">25th November
2008</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
26 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
27 default in Debian Edu. We need an embedded video playing plugin with
28 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
29 all the multimedia content available on the web. The test results and
30 notes are available on
31 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
32 Debian wiki
</a>. I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
33 fill this need. My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
34 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages. A lot of the MIME
35 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
36 video/ogg), just do not work. And simple formats like the
37 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
38 totem and vlc plugins. I hope the situation will improve soon. No
39 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.
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41 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin. It seem to
42 be the only one fitting our needs. :/
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<a href=
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</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia
</a>,
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web
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