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| Newer page: | version 18 | Last edited on Friday, September 29, 2006 3:15:45 pm | by DouglasBagnall | |
| Older page: | version 16 | Last edited on Friday, September 15, 2006 3:45:11 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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RhythmBox:
An iTunes-inspired interface for [GNOME], built on [GStreamer].
[StreamTuner | http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/]:
Mainly concentrates on internet radio, but the Local-plugin allows browsing [MP3]s by directories on disc.
+A range of curses-based players:
+ A curses interface is actually quite well suited to an audio player, although the various projects have found no consensus on appropriate keystrokes. [Cplay|http://mask.tf.hut.fi/~flu/hacks/cplay/], [moc|http://moc.daper.net/], [juke], [pytone|http://www.luga.de/pytone/], [mp3blaster|http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/], [ncmpc|http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/], [playmp3list], [mplay|http://mplay.sourceforge.net/] are some examples. Cplay and moc, at least, are quite easy to understand and far less prone to freezing and crashing than RhythmBox.
!! Video Players
[Totem]:
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[Xine]:
Originally an open source media player application, xine split into into a player and a backend (xine-lib), which is the basis for many other media front ends (such as [Totem].)
[GStreamer]:
The [GNOME] media framework (in the same way that DirectX is the Windows media framework.)
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+[ffmpeg]:
+ All of these media players use ffmpeg's libavcodec for encoding/ decoding.
+[MPlayer]:
+ The source may not be as neatly separable as Xine, but it is still quite easy to build a new almost functional front-end, as many projects have demonstrated.
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