| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MP3 Players | ||||||
xmms | xmms | 1.2.8 | Maintainers |
| The XMMS player has most of the features of winamp, but of course it has also some special features which are only available for the Linux platform. XMMS features native IPv6 support since release 1.2.8. |  |
freeamp | freeamp | 2.1.1 | Fulvio Risso |
| FreeAmp is an extensible, cross-platform audio player. It features an optimized version of the GPLed Xing MPEG decoder which makes it one of the fastest and best sounding players available. FreeAmp provides a number of the most common features users have come to expect in a clean, easy to use interface. |  |
mpg123 | mpg123 | 0.59r | KAME Project |
| mpg123 is a real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1,2 and Layer3 (MPEG 2.0 with Layer1/2 not heavily tested). Tested with Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x and SGI Irix. Plays Layer 3 in stereo on an AMD-486-120Mhz or (of course) a faster machine. (Just for info: mpg123 plays an average 128bps stream, with about 66% in full quality on my AMD 486-133MHz machine). Note: this player is only for non commercial use. | |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movie Players and Encoders | ||||||
MPlayer | MPlayer | at least 1.0pre7 | Maintainers |
| MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library). | |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOIP/IP-Telephony & Videoconferencing | ||||||
gnomemeeting | gnomemeeting | 0.98.5 | Maintainers |
| GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compatible videoconferencing and VOIP/IP-Telephony application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with H.323 hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting). It supports all modern videoconferencing features, such as registering to an ILS directory, gatekeeper support, making multi-user conference calls using an external MCU, using modern Quicknet telephony cards, and making PC-To-Phone calls. | |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio Streaming Applications | ||||||
pcm6cast | pcm6cast | 0.1k | Maintainers |
| pcm6cast is a raw PCM audio streaming broadcaster and client using RTP over IPv6 Multicast. It is free open source software released under the LGPL. Unlike VAT and RAT, which are designed primerily for audio conferencing, pcm6cast is designed to be used for audio distribution and broadcast. | |
RAT | RAT | 4.2.25 | Maintainers |
| The Robust Audio Tool (RAT) is a an open-source audio conferencing and streaming application that allows users to particpate in audio conferences over the internet. These can be between two participants directly, or between a group of participants on a common multicast group. | |
| Video Streaming Applications | ||||||
VideoLAN | VLC | 0.8.1 | Maintainers |
| The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux... | |