Video Player change proposal

[Ronnie]

I agree,  gnome player and the gecko plugin are useless,,, not so much
gnomeplayer and mplayer  but particularly gecko plugin,,,, which rarely
plays anything.... its a joke,,, vlc doesn't play everything with their
web browser plugin, but it does play a lot more than gecko does.. that
thing either needs fixed or tossed aside..

As for chromium, what a terrible browser to pick for a lightweight
os,,, firefox is actually lighter,, if you look closely at chromiums
memory usage ,,, is terrible usually multiple multiple chromium
processes running eating up tons of memory... don't believe me?  vist a
site or two and keep watching those numerous processes piling up..

Not that firefox is super lightweight mind you, but its better than
chromium and i read their next browser really chomps down on memory
usage,,,

I know of midori but its still not ready,,, to many crashes and sites,
(like pogo) that just don't work.... midori is light particularly at
first but can and will grow in size over time.... 

firefox is the clear winner in my book,,, lighter than chromium,
promises to be lighter in the very near future and the dang thing just
works..

i try different browsers and always wind up back at firefox

simply the best


and lets not even get into all the spying thats being done browsing
around with chromium..

-Ronnie


On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:36:36 -0400
Matt Davis <mtthwldvs at gmail.com> wrote:

>    - Could we make a poll of what should be better to use? I'm aware
> of
>    - consistency issues with VLC, but with a nice GTK theme that
> integrates QT,
>    - it behaves very fast. Additionally, is quite one of the biggest
> media
>    - players in the open source world, and is cross-platform... so a
> lot of
>    - users coming from windows could find theirs favourite apps out
> of the box
>    - (chromium and vlc)
>    - Plus I must say that in my old pentium 3 (1000mhz & 512ram & 8mb
>    video) VLC
>    - behaves splendid, did a lot of tests to see if Gnome-Mplayer
> behave better
>    - but nothing really noticeable (vlc even performed better).
>    Additionally, is
>    - an incredible well-maintained project with lots of support, so
> never again
>    - we should see things like what's happening with our actual
> player in
>    - Lubuntu 12.04 (and apparently in 12.10 too)
>    - -- jpxsat
> 
> I have never been able to get mplayer or mplayer2 to work. Believe me
> I have tried for HOURS. I have recompiled it, downloaded 1.0.6
> versions from Launchpad, tried all combinations of frontends, etc...
> It never works. I now consider it broken and don't even bother with
> it.
> 
> Generally for a GTK solution I use gxine, but even that takes a little
> fiddling sometimes to get it setup the first time. After that it is
> very dependable though. It's browser plugin works well with the
> Firefox flashvideoreplacer extension for those that are interested.
> 
> VLC is always the "just works" solution, but it is QT and brings those
> additional dependancies along with it. This could be prohibitive for
> fitting on a cd. Is it possible to subtract both Audacious and
> Gnome-mplayer to offset that? VLC would then become the overall
> one-stop media center of Lubuntu. I have a feeling a QT app will
> never happen in a Lubuntu release. Before anyone should say that VLC
> is not "light" enough, my computer is similarly spec'ed to jpxsat. It
> runs VLC very well.