GTK MediaplayEr foR LINux

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Software Packages used by gmerlin

These packages are contained in the gmerlin source tarball (thanks to the GNU-people and their license which makes this possible). They are, however, slightly modified to match the build/install process of gmerlin. Go to the links below if you want to download the original versions of the packages.

libsndfile: Used for reading and writing lots of audio file formats
libmpeg3: Used for decoding lots of mpeg audio/video formats
cdparanoia: Reads digital audio data from audio CDs (actually a commandline program, germlin uses only the libraries)
lame: mp3 encoder which enables gmerlin to encode all it's audio data into mp3 files
quicktime4linux: This enables gmerlin to read and write quicktime files supported by bcast2000. Many proprietary codecs, which are used in Mac/Win-world are not supported, because their makers have decided not to support linux.
avifile: This is used by gmerlin to read avi/asf files.
mad: Mpeg audio decoder: This is a really cool decoder which was used to make the mp3 plugin
id3lib: This enables several gmerlin plugins to read/write ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags
vorbis: The vorbis libraries are used to read and write Ogg Vorbis files.
jpeg-mmx: This is currently only used by the mjpeg codecs of quicktime4linux.

Related Projects

Ok, lets be fair. There are, of course, many other media players avaliable for linux. Here are some of them:

xmms:  X Multimedia System, architecture is mainly for audio, but several video plugins also exist
xmovie: Plays all formats which are supported by the Heroine Virtual libraries
xmps: X Movie Player System: A project similar to Gmerlin
xine: is a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems
Xtheater: MPEG-1 player in GTK+ capable of playing MPEG-1 format streams from file, http, and VCD with seek capability