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@hushmail.com 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
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