On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 10:47 +0930, Tim wrote: > > For instance there's little reason not to use VideoLan (VLC) as the > > standard media player in Linux.... Does anyone in the Real World actually think of themselves as using a "media player"? Perhaps they consider playing video and playing music to be two different things. Now there's a thought ... > I find it even slower to get started than any of the alternatives, and > a > bit CPU heavy. So that's quite a nuisance when you're file managing > (e.g. double click on something in a list of other things, to work out > what's what, and there's an awful lot of waiting involved). RhythmBox > is also quite heavy, with all that baggage of being a library of all > your files, which is quite painful when my music collection is on the > file server, accessed via NFS. And Totem is a behemoth that doesn't > let > you do much (few codecs included, few remote ones ever found, etc.). I use Amarok for music (and have a fairly serious dislike of its new look, but that's beside the point). For "click-to-play" video I use Dragon, which is simple, effective and above all fast. I reserve VLC for the harder cases. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
