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xine 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. xine uses libraries from other projects such as liba52, libmpeg2, FFmpeg, libmad, FAAD2, and Ogle. 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.

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Software.name
xine-plugin
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
Cross-platform
Software.genre
Media player
Software.license
GPL-2.0-or-later
Software.screenshot
Gxine-screenshot.png

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Wikidata facts

Official website
xine.sourceforge.net
Image
Xine screenshot.png
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Commons category
XINE
software version identifier
1.2.13
source code repository URL
hg.code.sf.net/p/xine/xine-ui
publication date
2000-00-00
inception
2000-08-15
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Contents
  • History
  • Supported media formats
  • DVD issues
  • Other issues
  • Graphical user interface
  • xine backend
  • See also
  • References

xine 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. xine uses libraries from other projects such as liba52, libmpeg2, FFmpeg, libmad, FAAD2, and Ogle. 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.

== History == The xine project was started in 2000 by Günter Bartsch shortly after LinuxTag. At that time playing DVDs in Linux was described as a tortuous process since one had to manually create audio and video named pipes and start their separated decoder processes.

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