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A free DVD Player! With feautures similar to PowerDVD for PC, Xine takes care of all your needs. Screen Capture, full menu control, Full-Screen, Closed-captioning, the works.
xine is a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems. It supports mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 system (audio + video multiplexed) streams, mpeg elementary streams (audio/video only, e.g. mp3 files), AVI files with various video formats (some of them by using win32 dlls). There is some support for quicktime streams (but most quicktime video and audio codecs are highly proprietary and thus not supported).
xine plays the video and audio data of the stream and synchronizes the playback of both. Depending on the properties of the stream, playback will need more or less processor power, full frame rate for mpeg-2 has been seen on a 400 MHz P II system.
xine can play Video CDs, SVCDs and DVDs directly. Unfortunately the legal status of encrypted/locked DVD playback is uncertain in some countries so xine does not include any DVD unlock/decrypt code. To play back such DVDs you'll need external programs or something like a xine_dvd_plugin that can handle DVD authentification/descrambling. The xine project team denies all responsibility for such uses of xine.
As of xine 0.5 xine's architecture allows for flexible plugins, so various other stream types and output devices might be supported in the future.
supported platforms / requirements:
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- xine needs a X11 server for video output
(8, 15, 16, 24 or 32 bit color depth)
- xine can detect and use the MIT X video and X shared memory extension for better playback performance
- if you can't get Xv to run on your platform you should use 16bpp colordepth for speed. Xv seems to work nicely for any color-depth.
- if you have a mga 200 / 400 graphics adaptor you can optionally use the sybcfb/teletux video ouput driver. See README.syncfb for details.
- for audio playback OSS, ALSA, ESD and ARTSD are supported.
- aaxine uses aalib for output and can run on nearly any terminal
- to build xine fairly recent GNU make, gcc and binutils are requireD
Every xine package available on this site has been patched against the d4d plugin by Plitsch-Platsch. This way you can also play encrypted DVDs. Our binary RPMs were built on a SuSE Linux box, but they are known to work perfectly on other RPM-based distributions such as Red Hat and Mandrake. You'll also find binary DEBs, source RPMs and source tarballs here.
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