default media player

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller uraeus at gnome.org
Wed Apr 13 09:53:24 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:54 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there any reason why Totem is not the default media player in 
> > FC4 ?
> > The test releases still have Helix Player, while Totem is now the
> > default GNOME player, and currently it plays more formats.
> 
> Agreed we should do this.  Core can ship with totem, and arbitrary 
> 3rd-party provided plugins can be added in order to enable other 
> codecs.

Great, could you also make sure the Helix package, even when its moved
to extras, do not handle 'rpm' files in Firefox. I hate it when I try to
download stuff and instead get a helix player started in the browser.

Christian




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