which video player for a package Requires ?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:27 +0200, Nicoleau Fabien wrote:
> Le 24/05/2011 22:37, Miloslav Trmač a écrit :
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Nicoleau Fabien
> > <nicoleau.fabien at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> 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 ?

> Well I think that I'll use "xdg-open" as the default value in the 
> configuration file. It seems to be the best solution, even if it opens 
> the default web browser for a video url (that will then, propose to 
> watch it with the video player)

like I said, it seems to be rather worse with a *local* video file - try
it. but sure, xdg-open is the right answer in theory, and where it's
broken we should fix it.
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