From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:33:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Bedre språk. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/6319465e675f27c9d0d6381625873f4d6c639a62 Bedre språk. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt b/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt index ecca79857b..355954b6a6 100644 --- a/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt +++ b/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt @@ -6,25 +6,28 @@ Date: 2010-11-27 11:30 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.

+gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure +model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message +reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or +just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.

But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use mplayer in Debian Edu/Skolelinux. 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.

+not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there +is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I +last +tested the browser plugins available in Debian, the VLC plugin +failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If +the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer +package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.

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 +For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. 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