On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:09:38 +0200 ttoine <[email protected]> wrote: I am strongly agaist it. VLC uses closed/hidden codecs not vailable for other programs and therefore alone it should not be used at all. In addtion to that it fucks up the sample rate on a regular basis if one wants to use music with other then the standard sample rate.
Edmund > VLC is imho the best player we can find for Ubuntu Studio users. It > can read everything from everywhere, on nearly all drivers (jack, and > more included). > > If we should replace the default multimedia player for a serious one > in Ubuntu Studio, I am for VLC. > > > Antoine THOMAS > Tél: 0663137906 > > > 2013/6/3 Len Ovens <[email protected]> > > > > > On Sun, June 2, 2013 10:43 am, [email protected] wrote: > > > One more thing about Xine: In a default install of Ubuntustudio, > > > I was able to play H264/mp4 video in Xine without installing > > > extra codecs, thanks to the ffmpeg version used. > > > > > > If there is a policy that gstreamer-ffmpeg can't be shipped by > > > default > > but > > > the underlying ffmpeg can be, that's inconsistant. I know that > > > sort of decision gets made upstream, but it creates a default > > > install that can't do it's default job if enforced strictly, due > > > to the nature of current > > > cameras and audio recorders. > > > > > > A multimedia distro without codecs can't play most media > > > distributed by windows users or commericial websites. Much more > > > seriously, it also can't play ORIGINAL media produced by a > > > majority of midrange video cameras and even audio recorders. > > > > We have tried to ship with everything needed. So we added the > > libav-extra set of packages. As far as I know We just hadn't > > thought of the gs packages. > > > > -- > > Len Ovens > > www.OvenWerks.net > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
