List of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users

[Che Hyderabadi]

This is list of Audio/Video players available for GNOME/KDE Users
Alsaplayer-gtk
Alsaplayer is a PCM player designed specifically for use with ALSA,
but works great with OSS or EsounD. It’s heavily threaded which cuts
down on skipping, offers optional and even simultaneous visual scopes,
plays mp3, mp2, ogg, cdda, audiofs, and lots more.

This package provides a GTK-based interface to alsaplayer.

Project Homepage :- http://www.alsaplayer.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.99.80

Amarok

Amarok is a sound system-independent audio-player for Unix. Its
interface uses a powerful “browser” metaphor that allows you to create
playlists that make the most of your music collection.

Project Homepage :- http://amarok.kde.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 2.2

Aqualung

Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/
Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD,
with native ports to Mac OS X and even Microsoft Windows. It plays
audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles
in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no
gaps between adjacent tracks.

Project Homepage :- http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.9beta10

Audacious

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based
on GTK2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on
audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.

Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than
GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which
itself forked from XMMS.

Project Homepage :- http://audacious-media-player.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 2.1.0

Banshee

Banshee is an media management and playback application for the GNOME
desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their
library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music
to/from iPods and other media devices, play and manage video files and
burn selections to a CD.

Project Homepage :- http://banshee-project.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.4.3

Beep media player

BMP Is a versatile and handy multi platform media player

Project Homepage :- http://sourceforge.net/projects/beepmp/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.20pre2

Cactus

Cactus Jukebox is an audio player and music organizing tool. It
searches given folders for music files and shows them in a database.

Project Homepage :- http://cactus.hey-you-freaks.de

Latest Stable Version :- 0.4.2

cmus

cmus is a small and fast text mode music player for Linux and many
other UNIX like operating systems.

Project Homepage :- http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

Latest Stable Version :- 2.2.0

Decibel

Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player
designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to
use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface. It is
especially targeted at Gnome and follows as closely as possible the
Gnome HIG.

Project Homepage :- http://decibel.silent-blade.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.01

Exaile

Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It
incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/
album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many
portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as
shoutcast, and tabbed playlists.

Project Homepage :- http://www.exaile.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.3.0.1

Freevo

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR /
DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and
more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such
as mplayer, xine and vlc. Primarily aimed at the Linux platform it is
also possible to run on OSX and for the determined on Windows. It is
the main mythtv alternative.

Project Homepage :- http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.9.0

Helix-player

The Helix Player is an open source media player for Linux, Solaris,
and Symbian based on the Helix DNA Client media engine. More operating
system versions are currently in development.

Project Homepage :- https://player.helixcommunity.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 11.0

Juk

JuK is a free software audio player for KDE, the default player since
KDE 3.2 part of the kdemultimedia package. JuK supports collections of
MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

Project Homepage :- http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html

Latest Stable Version :- 2.2

kaffeine

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE. 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.

Project Homepage :- http://kaffeine.kde.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.0-pre2

Listen

Listen is an audio player written in Python. Thanks to it, you can
easily organize your music collections.

Project Homepage :- http://www.listen-project.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.6.3

Mesk

Mesk is a PyGtk+ audio player that supports multiple playlists and
plugins.

Project Homepage :- http://mesk.nicfit.net/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.3.2

Mplayer

It plays most mpeg, avi and asf files, supported by many native and
win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even DivX movies too. The
other big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output
drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, but you
can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel card-
specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them supports
software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.

Project Homepage :- http://www.mplayerhq.hu

Latest Stable Version :- 1.0rc2

MPD

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side
application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can
play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network
protocol.

Project Homepage :- http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki

Latest Stable Version :- 0.15.4

sonata GTK frontend MPD

Mpg123

mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers
1,2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 aka MP3 most commonly tested). Among
others working with Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5,
HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin or plain MS Windows.
It is free software licensed under LGPL 2.1 (the officially released
sources, some files in subversion repository may differ).

Project Homepage :- http://www.mpg123.de/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.9.1

Muine

Muine is an innovative music player. It has a simple interface
designed to allow the user to easily construct a playlist from albums
and/or single songs. Its goal is to be simply a music player, not to
become a robust music management application.

Project Homepage :- http://muine-player.org/wiki/Main_Page

Latest Stable Version :- 0.8.11

Quodlibet

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the
Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know
how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make
playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches
work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file.
And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports — Ogg
Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.

Project Homepage :- http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/

Latest Stable Version :- 2.1

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally
inspired by Apple’s iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well
under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media
framework.

Project Homepage :- http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.12.5

Songbird

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under
active development.

Project Homepage :- http://www.getsongbird.com/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.2.0

SMPEG GTK+ MPEG audio/video player

SMPEG (SDL MPEG Player Library) is a free MPEG1 video player library
with sound support. Video playback is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley
MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2. Audio is played through a slightly
modified mpegsound library, part of splay v0.8.2. SMPEG supports MPEG
audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.This package
contains a GTK+ player called gtv.

Totem

Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment
based on GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek
and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.

Project Homepage :- http://projects.gnome.org/totem/

Latest Stable Version :- 2.28

VideoLan/VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia
framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio
CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Project Homepage :- http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.0

XBMC

XBMC has gone a long way since its first stable release in 2004. It
has evolved from a xbox only application into a sleek cross platform
media center that runs on almost anything you throw it at. XBMC has
thousands of users, is the mother of many successful derivative
projects and commercial spin-offs and is written about in the
international press on a regular basis.

Project Homepage :- http://xbmc.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 9.04.1

ximp3

Ximp3 is a console music player. It is based on the GPL’ed Xing
decoder also used in FreeAmp.

Project Homepage :- http://matsp888.tripod.com/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.1.15

Xine

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs.It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available – and
some of the most uncommon formats, too.

Project Homepage :- http://www.xine-project.org

Latest Stable Version :- 1.1.16

XMMS

XMMS is a legacy GTK+1 music player modeled after Winamp.

Project Homepage :-
http://www.xmms.org/

Latest Stable Version :- 1.2.11

Youki

Youki is the current media player of the MPX Project. Previous media
players produced by the team were Beep Media Player, BMPx, and the
never officially released audiosource. Youki is a free software media
player for most modern Unix operating systems.

Project Homepage :- http://youki.mp/

Latest Stable Version :- 0.05.2

If you know something is missing from this list plaese let us know.In
the next article we will see how to install these players in ubuntu.


Source: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/list-of-audiovideo-players-available-for-gnomekde-users.html

[chris]

Hi Che
The reason I asked, is that I have not found wine too stable since 8.10
I wonder if Suusheel would not be better installing XP into Virtual Box
and running that program that way?

Don't myself like making sugestions unleass I have tried the thing out
myself

Cheers Chris

[Susheel Kumar]

Thanks Che and Chris. At first, I tried playing .wrf on 9.04 but it couldn't read that format.  After installing wine, am able to play .wrf recordings.

For those who want to know the procedure for installing wine and playing .wrf recordings:

install wine from terminal, using the command

$ sudo apt-get install wine

Select .wine tab and browse to the location where your .wrf file locates and play it.

It will install the wine, then

run wine from Application --> wine -->Browse Virtual C:\ Drive

Select .wine tab --> Dos devices--> and browse to the location where your .wrf application locates and play it.


-Susheel

[Susheel Kumar]

 

Rather this wud be more clear :)

install wine from terminal, using the command

$ sudo apt-get install wine

It will install the wine, then

run wine from Application --> wine -->Browse Virtual C:\ Drive

Select .wine tab --> Dos devices--> and browse to the location where your .wrf application locates(install the atrecply.msi webex s/w) and play it.

[Chevhq Car]

Well done
Cheers the kiwi

[bittin]

nice list =)