xine-lib 1.0 Released 21
gooofy writes "After two years of intense testing and continuous improvement, the xine
development team proudly presents the final xine-lib 1.0 release. Compared with the latest release candidate, there are not many changes. However, a security issue regarding
the AIFF demuxer (CAN-2004-1300) is fixed, as well as some issues that
might have appeared with the way the Xv plugin has been linked in 1-rc8.
Therefore, upgrading to 1.0 is strongly recommended. Thanks to the whole xine team for making this happen!"
Waht does this mean? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Waht does this mean? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waht does this mean? (Score:2)
Re:Waht does this mean? (Score:3)
Re: Waht does this mean? (Score:4, Funny)
> What does this mean for the avergae user?
You can watch movies while waiting for your spellchecker to catch up.
GStreamer (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:GStreamer (Score:4, Interesting)
Xine is strictly a player library which only focusses on playback of your multimedia files. In that respect it can perhaps be described as a subset of gstreamers functionallity. But it is great at what it does.
One day, gstreamer may replace both xine and mplayer and the existing media backends like esound and arts, to become the default media backend for both KDE and Gnome, giving both a full build in media playing capacity.
Re:GStreamer (Score:1)
Wasn't MPlayer suppose to do the same? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Wasn't MPlayer suppose to do the same? (Score:1)
Nice, but (Score:2)
Re:Nice, but (Score:2)
Supported network (Webcasting/Streaming) protocols
ogg streams (Score:1)
Great news (Score:2)
I've never had a single codec problem when using a Xine-based player. It's played everything I've thrown at it without choking. I'm sure MPlayer's good, but considering how perfectly Xine works, I have no need to try something else.
For the record, Kaffeine 0.4.x, which uses Xine as its backend, is the single best media player I've used in my life. I can't stand 0.5, but 0.4.x is perfect. Nothing else compares to it.
Re:Great news (Score:1)
Just wanna throw in a voice for Kaffeine 0.5 [sf.net]. I think the playlist is much nicer and the whole thing integrates a lot better into kde. Jürgen Köfler and the rest of the gang really pulled off a nice app with 0.5. In any case, whichever version you prefer, Kaffeine should be the number one choice for a xine frontend on KDE.