default media player

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 4/12/05, Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at apestaart.org> 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.  (Helix
>> Player was added quite late to FC3 and without any warning or discussion
>> - I probably should have brought it up sooner :))
> 
> I'd have to agree that there needs to be serious evaluation of totem
> again as the default player for fc4.  I'm not aware of a technical
> advantage that Helix has out-of-the-box. And unless Helix has grown

There is one (technical) thing that I've seen helix do that at least
xine-lib'd totem (or a gstreamered rhythmbox for that matter) didn't and
that was seek in a stream (e.g. lugradio). It makes putting up with
buffering worthwhile.

I doubt this alone is enough to best totem though (small things like
mousewheeling over the volume moving the control the same way as the rest
of the desktop and not highlighting the previous url in the open location
box give totem the edge for me).