Projects

VLC media player

claimed by VideoLAN

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in ... [More] unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. [Less]

Totem

Totem is a media player for the GNOME desktop environment using GStreamer or xine as a backend. It also includes a browser plugin compatible with Windows Media player targeted websites, and has a plugin system itself, allowing C, Python or Vala plugins to extend Totem and add functionality.

Rockbox

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.

XMMS

XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through thirdparty plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists ... [More] , but there are much better systems other than XMMS for video support. It was modeled after winamp from the Windows operating system. XMMS is not a port of Winamp but was written from scratch by Mikael and Peter Alm. [Less]

Songbird

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the ... [More] project. We'd love your help! There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do. [Less]

DeaDBeeF

DeaDBeeF is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 written in C and C++. Features: minimal depends; native GTK2 GUI; cuesheet support; mp3, ogg, flac, ape; chiptune formats with subtunes, song-length databases, etc; small memory footprint. Core part is GPLv2-licensed, while plugin header ... [More] uses zlib/libpng license. This allows to write plugins using pretty much any license. [Less]

Exaile

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via ... [More] Wikipedia, Last.fm support, and optional iPod support via a plugin. [Less]

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

This project is based on the original "Media Player Classic" and was created after Gabest, the original author, stopped working on it. Several new features have been integrated in this player, such as : * An option to remove Tearing * Translation in 25 languages: Armenian ... [More] , Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian) * Additional video decoders, particularly H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1 with DXVA support * Better support for Windows Vista/7, including a release for 64-bit platform * Support for EVR renderer * Bugs and vulnerability fixes [Less]

Clementine Music Player

Clementine is a modern music player and library organiser. Clementine is a port of Amarok 1.4, with some features rewritten to take advantage of Qt4. Features: * Search and play your local music library * Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM and Magnatune * Tabbed playlists ... [More] , import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX * Visualisations from projectM * Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC * Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music * Download missing album cover art from Last.fm * Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux * Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl) * Supports MPRIS on Linux, or remote control using the command-line [Less]

XMMS2

XMMS2 is a music player.