From 2bb6d3e4921406742e5fcff145c4bc10e3911704 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:44:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] New post. --- blog/data/2016-06-06-debian-media-player.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/data/2016-06-06-debian-media-player.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2016-06-06-debian-media-player.txt b/blog/data/2016-06-06-debian-media-player.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d696e1d04 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2016-06-06-debian-media-player.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Title: The new "best" multimedia player in Debian? +Tags: english, debian, debian edu, multimedia, video +Date: 2016-06-06 12:50 + +

When I set out a few weeks ago to figure out +which +multimedia player in Debian claimed to support most file formats / +MIME types, 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.

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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 +Multimedia +player MIME type support status Debian wiki page.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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