Multimedia under dapper [LWN.net]

Multimedia under dapper

Posted Apr 4, 2006 23:15 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
Parent article: My quest for a Linux audio player (Linux.com)

I could be doing something wrong... Initially I followed the ubuntu non-US instructions. Those were great. That didn't fix everything so I just did a bunch of searches with apt-cache and installed everything that looked like a multimedia plugin. Then I did a dist-upgrade to dapper and repeated the process.

Banshee doesn't work and ends up eating all my RAM so I have to switch TTYs and kill it while the keyboard is still responsive. Banshee does encode stuff to .ogg but it just refuses to play it.

When I put a cd in rythmbox opens up but I have to click on each song for it to play and that's annoying.

vlc pretty much works for everything.
totem-xine pretty much works for everything.
totem-gstreamer doesn't work.
gxine rarely works.

I use xmms for mp3s and audio cds.

Most video plays. Quick time is still problematic.

I'm not using the ubuntu version of firefox so the gxine-plugin barely ever works. Even under ideal conditions it was pretty crash prone. I did like that you could maxamize the window though.

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