Information about Xine
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| Maintainer: | xine team |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Media player |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | xinehq.de |
xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name "Maxine" without "Ma"[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library (xine-lib) that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization of audio and video streams. xine uses libraries from other projects such as liba52, libmpeg2, FFmpeg, libmad, FAAD2, and Ogle.[2] xine can also use binary Windows codecs through a wrapper, bundled as the w32codecs, for playback of some media formats that are not handled natively.[3]
History
xine was started in 2000 by Guenter Bartsch shortly after LinuxTag. At that time playing DVDs in Linux was described as a torturous process[4] since one had to manually create audio and video named pipes and start their separated decoder processes.Guenter realized the OMS (Open Media System) or LiViD approach had obvious shortcomings in terms of audio and video synchronization, so xine was born as an experiment trying to get it right. The project evolved into a modern media player multi-threaded architecture.[5]
During xine development some effort was dedicated to making a clear separation of the player engine (xine-lib) and front-end (xine-ui). Since the 1.0 release (2004-12-25) the API of xine-lib is considered stable and several applications and players rely on it.
Guenter left the project in 2003 when he officially announced the new project leaders, Miguel Freitas, Michael Roitzsch, Mike Melanson and Thibaut Mattern.
Supported media formats
- Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs
- Container formats: 3gp, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia
- : Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV
- Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, MP3, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA
DVD Issues
Since xine is not a member of DVD Forum, the xine project are not contractually obliged to insert user operation prohibition such as disallowing fast-forward or skipping during trailers and ads. However, without membership in the Forum, they also cannot support DVD CSS encryption without the libdvdcss library, which was created by reverse engineering. The legal status of libdvdcss is questionable in several nations; in the United States, for example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably prohibits reverse-engineering of CSS.See also
- List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
- Open source codecs and containers
- Comparison of video codecs
- Comparison of audio codecs
- Comparison of (audio/video) container formats
- FFmpeg, cross-platform, open source, audio and video codecs suit/library
- List of other software video players
- Kaffeine, a player for KDE that can use xine
- Totem, a player for GNOME that can use xine
- XinePlayer (Mac OS X frontend)
- MPlayer and MEncoder (use libavcodec and libavformat from FFmpeg, share some code/libraries with xine)
- Amarok, a music player that can use xine as one of its playback engines
- VLC media player/VideoLAN (uses libavcodec from FFmpeg, share some code/libraries with xine)
- List of other software media players
- Comparison of (audio/video) media and DVD-Video players
- Screencast
References
1. ^ xine FAQ, How do I pronounce "xine"?. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.
2. ^ About xine. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
3. ^ xine Features. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
4. ^ Ancient Linux DVD HOWTO (How DVDs were played in Linux at the twentieth century). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
5. ^ The xine hacker's guide - Engine architecture and data flow. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
2. ^ About xine. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
3. ^ xine Features. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
4. ^ Ancient Linux DVD HOWTO (How DVDs were played in Linux at the twentieth century). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
5. ^ The xine hacker's guide - Engine architecture and data flow. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
External links
- xinehq.de Home Page
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OS: Unix
Use: Media player
License: GPL
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