Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 4/12/05, Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).
