A Hackfest To Improve Linux Video Playback

[benmoran]

I end up using VLC from time to time, but these days Gstreamer handles most things fine. It's certainly become a lot more capable in the last year, especially when it comes to MKV containers. While mplayer/xine/etc. can be argued to be technically better, who cares as long as it plays my files.

[Kano]

mplayer currently falls behind ffplay when you want to see m2ts subtitles. I hope mplayer will support those soon.

[val-gaav]

I would like to know what other orphaned kde techs are out there...

The only example that comes to my mind is ARTS. Khtml may be dropped orphaned with kde5 just as arts was with kde4, however khtml will still live on as webkit.