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]

MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems and plays most known video and audio formats. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It has also an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls.

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is mostly developed under Linux, but portable to operating systems, including Windows.

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.

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]

Audacious

Audacious is a free audio player with a focus on low resource usage, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. Audacious began as a fork of Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1, which was a fork of XMMS.

Kaffeine

claimed by KDE

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE3. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.

XMMS2

XMMS2 is a music player.

icecast

Icecast is a streaming media server which supports Ogg audio and video, and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.

MOC

An ncurses based music player with support for many formats.