longterm kmplayer/smplayer/mplayer/mpv user here chiming in. The advantage with kmplayer is manyfold 1) we only maintain a wrapper GUI, which means new changes to mplayer are simple to handle 2) mplayer supports a plethora of codecs 3) mplayer supports a plethora of video output drivers (gl, vaapi, xrender, etc) 4) supports our native playback engine, arts 5) less to maintain, lots of benefit from upstream development 6) mplayer has a large and active user/development base. 7) all distros support mplayer in one form or another seems like a good idea to have it as a default On 4 February 2014 19:15, Darrell Anderson <darrella@...> wrote: >>This gets us no closer to solving the problem of a viable default >>video player, though, unless we want to shift KMPlayer into tde- >>multimedia. > > Merging kmplayer is worth a discussion, unless we fix kaboodle with > nominal effort and pain. We're no longer in the 1990s --- we really > do need a working default video player these days. > > We have two hurdles with kaboodle: > > Broken in R14. I can play audio files with some user accounts and > can't start kaboodle at all with other accounts. Probably something > at my end, but consistently I can't play videos. > > The supported video formats are few and they are both early > generation versions. Yes, both. As far as I can tell the only > supported formats are early generations of AVI and MPG. > > I filed bug reports against both issues. > > Darrell > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >