which video player for a package Requires ?

Nicoleau Fabien nicoleau.fabien at gmail.com
Wed May 25 10:58:41 UTC 2011


Le 24/05/2011 23:10, Haïkel Guémar a écrit :
> Le 24/05/2011 22:26, Nicoleau Fabien a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> I'm packaging a software that downloads videos from websites like
>> youtube, dailymotion, etc ...
>>
>> This software also allow the user to launch a video player that will
>> read the video as a stream.
>>
>> The default value in the configuration file for the video player is "vlc
>> --quiet %u".
>>
>> My question is :
>> what am I suppose to set in "Requires" field for the package ? totem ?
>> something generic ? nothing ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fabien Nicoleau
>   shouldn't it be handled by xdg-open ? Then it will try to play the
> video using the default multimedia player configured for the video
> mime-type.
>
> H.
With xdg-open, the internet browser is launched, and then propose to 
download the video file. May be the is a solution to tell to xdg-open to 
"open this file with the video player".

Fabien


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