Thread: VLC Player Officially coming
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2009-10-31 , 11:03
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Originally Posted by Rushmore View Post
The nice thing about VLC is it contains codecs in the app. I find sometimes VLC works on files others do not. MKV support is also nice and the app has an audio EQ.
I love this solution, lets put all the codecs and EQ in the applications themselves instead of in Gstreamer or PulseAudio. This way, only our application can use it. Mine!! My presjus!!

Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
True for allnameswereout and other GNOME purists.
True if you care about some kind of uniformity on your desktop.

What basis do we have to say it works great? How do we know this is true? How does it compare to VLC, for example?
Because it is the default player in GNOME, and together with GStreamer plays almost all formats.

I am a GNOME purist and therefore do not use Qt apps.
...and Maemo cares for HIG. Even on Maemo 6 the UI would need work.

VLC is a Qt app and therefor is is useless to me.
BS, I said codecs should be provided in an abstraction layer such as GStreamer.

Originally Posted by bigbrovar View Post
then am sure you dont also use virtualbox and skype? beside if its integration you with gnome you seek, then you statement is very misleading because qt actually integrate very well with gnome, so much so that its hard to tell a qt app from gnome (since there use native gtk widgets) so get your facts straight dude. and stop spreading fud
I have Skype on my S60 phone, in an application called Nimbuzz. It conforms to S60 HIG. Ofcourse, Skype would want me to use their application, and ICQ would want that too, and WLM too...

Now, VLC, OTOH, looks fugly by default in a non-Qt-based desktop on *NIX. How do I fix that? It looks fine on OSX and Windows.

[EDIT]Since it has no GUI backend on Maemo the UI argument is moot in Maemo context. Hopefully will remain this way, and the other arguments still stand.[/EDIT]
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