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+               <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
+Debian claim support for most file formats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
+plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
+Edu.  I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
+for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
+plugin supported most file formats / media types.
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia&quot;&gt;The
+result&lt;/a&gt; can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
+not been updated for a while.  But browser plugins are less relevant
+these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
+players.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
+player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
+Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why.  The cause is a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/822245&quot;&gt;missing MIME type in the VLC
+desktop file&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
+of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
+only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
+two for VLC.  This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
+compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
+instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
+support most file formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;a
+table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
+in the table&lt;/a&gt;, with the package supporting most MIME types being
+listed first in the table.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/p&gt;The best multimedia player in Debian?  It is totem, followed by
+parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
+kmplayer.  Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
+support?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
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                <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>