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+Title: Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?
+Tags: english, debian, debian edu
+Date: 2010-11-27 11:30
+
+<p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
+presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
+Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
+to play a video file or stream.  Only if VLC fail will I drag out
+gmplayer to see if it can do better.  The reason is mostly failure
+model and trust.  When VLC fail, it pop up a error message reporting
+the problem.  When mplayer fail, it segfault or just hangs.  The
+latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p>
+
+<p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
+mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a>.  The reason is simple.  We need a good browser
+plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
+not very good.  It lack in-line control buttons, so there is no way
+for the user to pause the video.  If the browser plugin for VLC was as
+good as the gecko-mediaplayer package (which uses mplayer), we would
+switch.</P>
+
+<p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
+annoying.  The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
+keyboard shortcuts.  When the player is in full screen mode, its
+shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
+Space only work as pause when in full screen mode, for example.  I
+wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
+window mode.  Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
+the current video.  It is very nice when playing short videos from the
+web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
+what is going on.</p>