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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Saturday, February 7, 2004 9:54:37 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Friday, January 16, 2004 8:27:11 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-Totem is a MediaPlayer that has a nice UI. It
can do playback using
either the [Xine] or [GStreamer] video libraries.
+[
Totem | http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3]
is a MediaPlayer which
can use
either the [Xine] or [GStreamer] video libraries as a backend
.
-''
Totem is a huge improvement in
the usability of Linux [MediaPlayer]s
. Jamie Zawinski [rant | http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html] about Linux video players was
harsh, but many of the points are
valid. Xine's user interface is a disaster. Xine should be enough to convince people "skinning" of applications are a huge MisFeature, as are interfaces that try to look like DVD players. Totem (at the time of writing) is not ready for PrimeTime, but it is a promising application.'' --SimonCrosby
+[
Totem]'s major strength over its competitors is its sane [GUI]. Contrast [Xine], whose interface is such a disaster it should convince people that "skinning"
is a huge MisFeature. Tring to imitate
the operation of analog devices doesn't help
usability either
. Jamie Zawinski's
[rant | http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html] about Linux video player usability is
harsh, but valid.
-At the time of update, it's pretty bloody close to ready for primetime, and
will become the [GNOME] media player
of choice come 2.6, when [GStreamer] goes
1.. It is also in GNOME 2.2 (and in Debian Testing and Unstable), and is one of the few (only?) video players for GNOME
.
+[Totem]
will become the [GNOME] MediaPlayer
of choice come 2.6, when [GStreamer] hits
1..
-(
See [this story
|http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5648] which was linked to from
SlashDot [here
|http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/13/2043223]
-)
+See also:
+* AsSeenOnSlashdot:
[GStreamer - Where We Are and Where We Are Going
| http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5648]
+* The
SlashDot article:
[The Full Story on GStreamer
| http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/13/2043223]
