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Multimedia library and player with AAC/MP4 support based on FAAD2.

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.

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Xine always starts muted

I'm suffering from the issue that xine is always starting up muted so that I have to manually increase the volume. I tried all options (with Configuration experience level set to maximum). The startup audio volume is set to 60% and tried with…
Martin Scharrer
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DVD video scrambled

I'm a long time Linux user and am quit used to recurring problems with DVD but I think I found something new. System: 10-years old computer running Ubuntu 20.04. libdvdcss2 is installed to the latest version. All packages updated nightly…
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Is it possible to set Totem as frontend for Xine?

The Wikipedia article for Totem player says that "until version 2.27.1, it could alternatively be configured to use the Xine libraries instead of GStreamer". I like Xine very much, but not its available GUIs (xine-ui, gxine, kaffeine are so awkward…
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How to setup Gnome & KDE to use the same soundsystem?

Using maverick ubuntu with added kubuntu-desktop: I look at KDE systemsettings in the multimedia section. Under phonon backend it says I use xine. No option to add or change anything here. Now gnome uses gstreamer and pulseaudio ... I'm using a…
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Does Gstreamer support the MP3 Surround format?

I am curious if Gstreamer can handle playing MP3 surround files. I have a few, but I can't get anything special about the file in properties except that it has double the normal kbps (which is normal for files encoded with MP3sx). Anyway, if not,…
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On what (main) "engines" are based Ubuntu video players?

Thinking about using Xine, beside other players like VLC and the mplayer-based ones, I became interested in this and tried to understand this kind of terminology (player, frontend, gui, engine, etc), as they are used for example in the Xine-ui…
user47206