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GENERAL Basic general information about the players: creator/company, license/price etc. OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT The Operating System s on which the players can run natively (without Emulation ), meaning which operating systems have which players specifically coded for them (not, for example, Windows Media Player for Windows running on an Apple Macintosh). Might be usable with Rosetta . Compare with the OSX86 Project's Universal software page . FEATURES Information on what features each of the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Basic support with NMM . Context Browser uses CSS . Plugin available. UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000. jetCast (free) needed {Link without Title} . Available with Quicktime Streaming Server {Link without Title} . Only the media creator can create skins. There is a separate tool available {Link without Title} . The free version of QuickTime Player for the Windows system does not support full-screen playback, however (correct as of v7.4). The tables compare general and technical information for a number of Media Player programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. External links lead to plugins or extensions that add features to that player. PROTOCOL SUPPORT Information about which Internet Protocol s the players support, for receiving Streaming Media content. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. 3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features. as of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts aviable. AUDIO FORMAT SUPPORT Information about what Audio Codec s, and by extension their native Audio File Format s, the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality. 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis and Speex . The playing compatibility of Media Player depends on the availability of DirectShow , QuickTime , RealMedia and Shockwave filters. There are two distributions known as QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative which bundle the required QuickTime and RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding players. Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation Available with QuickTime FLAC Plugin. Requires Microsoft Windows Media Audio Requires another sound system Converts only Supports Mp3PRO as well Support is available from a 3rd-party plugin {Link without Title} VIDEO FORMAT SUPPORT Information about what Video Codec s the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality. The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow , QuickTime , RealMedia and Shockwave filters. There are two distributions known as QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative which bundle the required QuickTime and RealPlayer components, respectively, without the need to install the corresponsing players. Both can be found at http://www.free-codecs.com/ The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters. The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime. The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime. MPlayer can be embedded by XMMS using the XMMPlayer or XMMS-MPlayer plugins. CONTAINER FORMAT SUPPORT Information about what Container Format s the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality. The playing compatibility depends on the availability of properly installed filters. Requires QuickTime 4 or higher. OPTICAL DISC SUPPORT Information about what Optical Disc s the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Supports CD and CDDA (Jitter correction optional) METADATA SUPPORT Information about what Metadata , or tagging, formats the players support. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality. Plugin is available for 0.8.3. Natively supported in 0.9. Support of ID3v1, ID3v2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib {Link without Title} . Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible (see Note 8). SUBTITLE SUPPORT Information about what subtitle formats the players support. DVD subtitle is not listed, as the players either have to support all DVD features or none. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality. For Windows, support of many subtitle formats can be added by installing VSFilter . These players strip the formatting data from SSA/ASS. (unsure about Totem and xine -- please test) This player supports some (color/positioning) of the formatting data from SSA/ASS, but has no full support SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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