Rage is a video and audio player written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).
If you want a simple video player like MPlayer, but with a few more visual niceties, then Rage may be for you. Almost all of the nuts and bolts it relies on for video playback and UI are provided by EFL itself or by something EFL wraps, like GStreamer, Xine, VLC and so on. Since it uses EFL, Rage will work in X11, Wayland, even the raw framebuffer with the Framebuffer console (fbcon) or the Direct Rendering Manager (DMS) subsystem.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Simple to use.
- Video browser mode – accessed by running Rage with no command-line arguments.
- Display a graphical overview of everything on your playlist by hitting the / key or just hovering your mouse over the right-hand side of the window.
- Full set of key controls.
- Automatically searches for and displays album art when playing music if they aren’t already cached.
- Generates thumbnails for video timelines and allows you to preview clips by hovering your mouse over the position bar at the bottom of the window.
- Caches album covers.
Website: www.enlightenment.org
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Developer: Carsten Haitzler, Eduardo Lima, Alastair Poole
License: 2-clause BSD License
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