VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)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 unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Features include:
* Support for input media: UDP/RTP Unicast and Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, DVB, MPEG encoder, Video acquisition (V4L)
* Input formats: MPEG, ID3 tags, AVI, ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3GP, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska, WAV (including DTS), Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash)
Video
* Decoders: MPEG-1/2, DIVX, MPEG-4, XviD, 3ivX, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG, WMV 1/2, WMV 3 WMV-9 / VC-1, Indeo Video v 3-5, Rado Video
* Subtitles: DVD, SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, Matroska, Text files, Vobsub
* Filters: Deinterlace, cropping, image wall, image adjust, rotate/mirror, logo overlay, magnification, image distortion, bluescreen, RSS/Aton feeds
* Outputs: Native, X11, XVideo, SDL, Framebuffer, ASCII Art
Audio
* Decoders: MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3, AC3 - A/52, DTS, LPCM, AAC, Vorbis, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, ADPCM, DV Audio, FLAC, QDM2/QDMC (Quicktime), MACE, Real Audio, Speex
* Filters: Visualization effects, equalizer
* Outputs: Native (OSS, ALSA), S/PDIF (OSS, ALSA), Multi-channel (OSS, ALSA), SDL, ESD, aRts, JACK
Streaming
* UDP Unicast / Multicast, RTP Unicast / Multicast, File, HTTP, MMSH
* Transcoding
* Send DVD subtitles
* Send SAP announces
xine is a powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback. In addition to functioning as a standalone product, it also serves as a library and engine for other software products.
It has excellent support for a large number of different file formats including physical media DVD, Video CD, and Audio CD. Xine supports a large number of formats including .mpeg, .ts, .ogg, .ogm, .avi, .asf, .wmv, .wma, .mpv, .m2v, .mp2, .mp3, .cpk, .voc, .snd, and .au. It also supports a wide variety of video and audio codecs. Streaming formats include mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 system (audio + video multiplexed), mpeg elementary (audio/video only, e.g. mp3 files), AVI file with various video formats (some of them by using win32 dlls), Vorbis OGG, and quicktime.
Features include:
* Support for OSS, ALSA, Irix Audio, Sun Audio, ARts, and ESD Audio drivers
* Streaming playback support covering the following Webcasting/Streaming protocols: NMS, PNM, RTSP, HTTP, and raw TCP socket streaming
* Supports DXR3, DVB tv cards, Video 4 Linux, and WinTV-PVR 250/350 pci with TV full screen support
* Skinnable GUI
* Download and installation of new skins from the internet
* Navigation controls (seeking, pause, fast, slow, next chapter, etc)
* Linux InfraRed Control support (LIRC)
* On Screen Display features
* DVD and external subtitles
* DVD/VCD menus
* Audio and subtitle channel selection
* Closed Caption support
* Brightness, contrast, audio volume, hue, saturation adjusting
* Playlists
* Mediamarks
* Image snapshot
* Audio resampling
* Software deinterlacing algorithms
* 2-3 pulldown detection (tvtime plugin)
* Configuration dialog
* Aspect ratio changing
* Fullscreen display
* DTS passthrough
Totem (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/)Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment. It features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.
Totem is included as the default media player in many Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Fedora.
Features include:
* Video thumbnailer for the file manager
* Nautilus properties tab
* Mozilla (Firefox) plugin to view movies inside your browser (in development)
* Webcam utility (in development)
* Play any xine or GStreamer supported file
* LIRC support
* Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support (also usable from a shipped LGPL library)
* DVD (with menus), VCD playback, disc-type automatically detected
* TV-Out configuration with optional resolution switching
* 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 Passthrough audio output
* Full-screen mode (move your mouse and you get nice controls) with Xinerama, dual-head and Viewport support
* Remote operation mode to control a running Totem
* Seek and Volume controls
* Aspect ratio changing, Scaling based on the video's original size
* Full keyboard control
* Playlist with Repeat and Shuffle modes, with saving feature and drag'n'drop reordering
* GNOME and Nautilus integration (Totem registers the file-types, adds a menu item, uses the proxy configuration, saves sessions, and registers pnm, mms, uvox and rtsp schemes, removes playlist items from a disc that's getting ejected)
* Properties window (information about the current movie)
* Drag'n'drop and mousewheel actions
* Screenshot feature
* Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation control
* Visualisation plugin when playing audio-only files
* Telestrator mode using Gromit
* Video thumbnailer
* Nautilus properties page
* Works on remote displays
* Automatic external subtitle load, or manual (only on the command-line, use like: totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt)
* DVD, VCD and OGG/OGM subtitles and languages support
* Dialog for more accurate seeking
* Authentication dialogs when location requires it
MPlayer is a very popular movie player which runs on many systems including Linux. It has builtin support for the most common video and audio formats (see list below), as well as having a powerful filter system for video and audio manipulation.
Features include:
* Supported Input Formats: (S)VCD (Super Video CD), CDRwin's .bin image file, DVD, including encrypted DVD, MPEG-1/2 (ES/PS/PES/VOB), RIFF AVI file format, ASF/WMV/WMA format, QT/MOV/MP4 format, RealAudio/RealVideo format, Ogg/OGM files, Matroska, NUT, NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video), VIVO format, FLI format, NuppelVideo format, yuv4mpeg format, FILM (.cpk) format, RoQ format, PVA format, streaming via HTTP/FTP, RTP/RTSP, MMS/MMST, MPST, SDP, and TV grabbing
* Supported Video and Audio Codecs: MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video, MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5 (Pro), XviD, Windows Media Video 7/8 (WMV1/2), Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) (using x86 DLL), RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2), RealVideo 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9) (using Real libraries), Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other QuickTime codecs, DV video, 3ivx, Intel Indeo3 (3.1, 3.2), Intel Indeo 4.1 and 5.0 (using x86 DLL or XAnim codecs), VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other H.263(+) variants (using x86 DLL), MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats, FLI/FLC, HuffYUV, and various old simple RLE-like formats
* Supported audio codecs: MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio, AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF), AAC (MPEG-4 audio), WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2, WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs), RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries), RealAudio: DNET and older codecs, QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC, Ogg Vorbis audio, VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL), alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats
* Supported Video Output Devices: X11 with SHM extension, X11 using overlays with the Xvideo extension (hardware YUV & scaling), Xvideo Motion Compensation, VIDeo Interface for *niX, VIDIX in an X11 window, VIDIX on the console, X11 DGA extension (both v1.0 and v2.0), OpenGL renderer, gl2, framebuffer output, SVGAlib output (supports EGA displays), SDL >= v1.1.7 driver, GGI graphics output, text mode rendering, text mode rendering in color, display through the VESA BIOS (also needed for Radeon TV-out), and DirectFB support
* Supported Audio Output Devices: OSS (Open Sound System), SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), NAS (Network Audio System), ESD (ESound Daemon), ARTS (KDE Sound System),and JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit)
* Streaming: Authentication for Real RTSP stream
Kaffeine is a simple, easy to use, full featured media player for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).
Currently, Kaffeine can use xine-lib, MPlayer, or GStreamer as a backend. It is therefore able to play almost all audio and video files.
Features include:
* Multiple playlists
* Play Audio CDs, DVDs and VCDs
* Streaming
* Rip and encode audio tracks to be stored on your hard disk
* Supports Digital Video Broadcasting devices supported by linuxtv drivers
* Electronic Program Guide
* Can broadcast several DVB channels (being on the same multiplex) on a LAN
* DCOP Interface
* Supports Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC)
2 comments:
Really wonderful. You have included digging fucility also in your blogs.
Stocks
I find Smplayer (mplayer, qt) being the top player at the moment.
The most promising is XBMC, not a player as so but still.
-Heni
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