xine
 xine is a powerful
multimedia program, specializing in video playback. In
addition to functioning as a standalone product, it also serves as a
library and engine for other software products.
It has excellent support for a large number of different file
formats
including physical media DVD, Video CD, and Audio CD. Xine
supports a large number of formats including .mpeg, .ts,
.ogg, .ogm, .avi, .asf,
.wmv, .wma, .mpv, .m2v, .mp2, .mp3, .cpk, .voc, .snd, and .au.
It also supports a wide variety of video and audio
codecs. Streaming formats include mpeg-2 and mpeg-1
system (audio + video
multiplexed), mpeg elementary (audio/video only, e.g.
mp3 files), AVI file with various video formats (some of them
by using win32 dlls), Vorbis OGG, and quicktime.
There are a
large number of frontends (i.e media players) that use the xine
playback engine, including xine-ui, gzine (both of which are part of
the xine project) as well as third party frontends including Totem
and Kaffeine.
Features include:
- Support for OSS, ALSA, Irix Audio, Sun Audio,
ARts, and ESD Audio drivers
- Streaming playback support covering the following
Webcasting/Streaming protocols: NMS, PNM, RTSP, HTTP, and raw TCP
socket streaming
- Supports DXR3, DVB tv cards, Video 4 Linux, and
WinTV-PVR 250/350 pci with TV full screen support
- Skinnable GUI
- Download and installation of new skins from the
internet
- Navigation controls (seeking, pause,
fast, slow, next chapter, etc)
- Linux InfraRed Control support (LIRC)
- On Screen Display features
- DVD and external subtitles
- DVD/VCD menus
- Audio and subtitle channel selection
- Closed Caption support
- Brightness, contrast, audio volume, hue,
saturation adjusting (requires hardware/driver support)
- Playlists
- Mediamarks
- Image snapshot
- Audio resampling
- Software deinterlacing algorithms
- 2-3 pulldown detection (tvtime plugin)
- Configuration dialog
- Aspect ratio changing
- Fullscreen display
- DTS passthrough
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