xine
Sign in to savexine 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.
Key facts
- 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
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- xine.sourceforge.net
- Image
- Xine screenshot.png
- Has use
- media player software
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- readable file format
- QuickTime File Format
- GUI toolkit or framework
- GTK
- operating system
- cross-platform
- Commons category
- XINE
- programmed in
- C
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- software version identifier
- 1.2.13
- source code repository URL
- hg.code.sf.net/p/xine/xine-ui
- publication date
- 2000-00-00
- depends on software
- FFmpeg
- inception
- 2000-08-15
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “xine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.