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     <h3>Entries from May 2016.</h3>
     
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title">
+        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</a>
+      </div>
+      <div class="date">
+         8th May 2016
+      </div>
+      <div class="body">
+        <p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
+Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
+
+<p>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.
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">The
+result</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/822245">missing MIME type in the VLC
+desktop file</a>.  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.</p>
+
+<p>The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">a
+table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
+in the table</a>, with the package supporting most MIME types being
+listed first in the table.</p>
+
+</p>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?</p>
+
+      </div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title">
         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html">The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</a>
@@ -76,7 +132,7 @@ first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
 
 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/04/">April (8)</a></li>
 
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/05/">May (1)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2016/05/">May (2)</a></li>
 
 </ul></li>
 
@@ -315,9 +371,9 @@ first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (125)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (126)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (155)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (156)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
 
@@ -327,7 +383,7 @@ first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (312)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (313)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (23)</a></li>
 
@@ -357,7 +413,7 @@ first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network (8)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (37)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (38)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software (7)</a></li>
 
@@ -409,7 +465,7 @@ first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (55)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (56)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>