Video players

[Jimmy Sjölund]

I'm back to using US 12.04 and Parole was not installed. I prefer Xine
because lukefromdc already wrote, it just works but both Parole and Totem
need the gstream-ffmpeg as well as other codecs to be downloaded just to
play my own iPhone recorded videos. While that's no issue for me I think
it's better for the new people trying out Ubuntu Studio to not have to
hassle with such things.

Suggested packages:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  parole

Perhaps these packages (or similar) are added automatically for later
releases?

After all my years using different distributions Totem has been consistent
in causing trouble for several different video types I try to launch.  Like
HZN I end up with mplayer and VLC, but to quickly check my own recorded
videos Xine does the trick.

/Jimmy



On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>wrote:

> Am 02.06.2013 17:23, schrieb Len Ovens:
> > A few releases ago when we switched to xfce, we got the default Xubuntu
> > video player Parole. At the time we found Parole didn't know how to set
> > the aspect ratio and so we added totem instead. With the thought that it
> > was what most of Ubuntu used. Somehow we have ended up with Xine
> installed
> > as well.. probably it comes with some of the libs we use.
> >
> > In any case, for the past few releases totem seems not have worked for a
> > number of people. It crashes on startup. So it has been a good thing that
> > we had Xine as a backup  :P
> >
> > In the mean time, Parole (like thunar) has been fixed and works on
> > anything I have tried it on.
> >
> > We should perhaps switch back to Parole,
>
> Most people, that want a videoplayer that works for more or less
> everything will end up with either Mplayer or VLC both work with Jack
> also both are needed for encoding/videoediting anyway.
>
> I understand, that they are a bit tooo skilled to be shipped with Ubuntu
> by default but anyway: most users will end up with one of the two
> because they are simply the best solutions....
>
> So if you want the best for the user just install a script that
> recommends to install one of them.
>
> just my 2ct
>
> HZN
>
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