Video Player change proposal

[Leszek Lesner]

Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012, 13:50:23 schrieb 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..

I don't agree. 
I made the exact opposite experience. The vlc mozilla plugin never worked for 
me. The only one that worked almost everywhere was the gecko-mediaplayer 
plugin. Its the only plugin(besides the gstreamer ones that are awfully slow) 
that works for me out of the box with trailers.apple.com 
(see http://blip.tv/ubuntu-switcher/gnome-mplayer-gecko-plugin-run-fine-under-
lubuntu-and-the-default-configuration-6347556)

> 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.

It works very well here so it can't be broken :P 
If it does not work for you. Do you have an error message or something that 
helps to figure out whats wrong ? 
I am very suprised thats not working for you as I am using it several years 
and well it is also way faster on older machines than vlc ever was. 

> 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.

Mplayer is definitely lighter than VLC. 
I would not recommend to remove audacious as a audio player as it is way 
faster and better in handling audio then VLC. 
So I suggest fixing and finding the bugs you report instead of switching 
completely away from mplayer & gnome-mplayer.