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+		<title>The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_new__best__multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html&quot;&gt;which
+multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
+MIME types&lt;/a&gt;, I was a bit surprised how varied the sets of MIME types
+the various players claimed support for.  The range was from 55 to 130
+MIME types.  I suspect most media formats are supported by all
+players, but this is not really reflected in the MimeTypes values in
+their desktop files.  There are probably also some bogus MIME types
+listed, but it is hard to identify which one this is.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in the mean time I got in touch with upstream for some of
+the players suggesting to add more MIME types to their desktop files,
+and decided to spend some time myself improving the situation for my
+favorite media player VLC.  The fixes for VLC entered Debian unstable
+yesterday. The complete list of MIME types can be seen on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport&quot;&gt;Multimedia
+player MIME type support status&lt;/a&gt; Debian wiki page.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The new &quot;best&quot; multimedia player in Debian?  It is VLC, followed by
+totem, parole, kplayer, gnome-mpv, mpv, smplayer, mplayer-gui and
+kmplayer.  I am sure some of the other players desktop files support
+several of the formats currently listed as working only with vlc,
+toten and parole.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A sad observation is that only 14 MIME types are listed as
+supported by all the tested multimedia players in Debian in their
+desktop files: audio/mpeg, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio, audio/x-mpegurl,
+audio/x-ms-wma, audio/x-scpls, audio/x-wav, video/mp4, video/mpeg,
+video/quicktime, video/vnd.rn-realvideo, video/x-matroska,
+video/x-ms-asf, video/x-ms-wmv and video/x-msvideo.  Personally I find
+it sad that video/ogg and video/webm is not supported by all the media
+players in Debian.  As far as I can tell, all of them can handle both
+formats.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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 		<title>A program should be able to open its own files on Linux</title>
 		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_program_should_be_able_to_open_its_own_files_on_Linux.html</link>