Saturday, January 17 2004 @ 03:21 PM EST Contributed by: Smiley
Kaffeine is a xine-based media player. xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available - and some of the most uncommon formats, too.
Most xine features supported now: DVD menus, video postprocessing, network broadcasting, external subtitles (autoloading), save streams as local files. Made Kaffeine more appropriate to KDE: Mainly using standard menus/shortcuts/icons now, full copy&paste support and you can drag URLs from playlist to other KDE apps (e.g. K3B). Also new: A small left-click panel for minimal and fullscreen mode. Improvements: audio/video-driver can be changed without restart. Visualization: selection now in the view-menu, can be changed during playback, will be turned off if you minimize the video window to save cpu time. m3u import: accepts now relative file paths and window-style URLs. Recursive scan of sub directories. File loading: mime check removed to make newer media formats working; meta tags will now be read on loading (mp3/ogg). Mouse wheel: navigate through the stream with rotating wheel over the video window. Handbook finally works with KDE 3.2. New translations: hungary, estonian, japanese, simplified chinese, swedish. Last but not least: Dozens of fixes! Enjoy it!
