From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:26:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New post. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/ea5ee61f22b802596ebf74fa3b2be52e3eae8d8d?ds=sidebyside New post. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt b/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecca79857b --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2010-11-27-vlc-edu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Title: Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC? +Tags: english, debian, debian edu +Date: 2010-11-27 11:30 + +

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.

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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.

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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.