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+Title: The new "best" multimedia player in Debian?
+Tags: english, debian, debian edu, multimedia, video
+Date: 2016-06-06 12:50
+
+<p>When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html">which
+multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats /
+MIME types</a>, I was a bit surprised how different 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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">Multimedia
+player MIME type support status</a> Debian wiki page.</p>
+
+<p>The new "best" 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.</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>
+
+<p>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.</p>