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XMMPlayer - MPlayer plugin for XMMS

XMMPlayer is an input plugin for XMMS (http://www.xmms.org) that uses MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) to play video files.

FEATURES

local file playback of AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and OGG movies using MPlayer
playback of HTTP and MMS media streams (see below)
Playback of (individual) VCD tracks or DVD titles (see below)
Shows info (length, audio-(nit)rate / channels) in XMMS
uses magic to detect AVI, MPEG, RealMedia and QuickTime movies (checks for .ogm extension to detect OGG movies, this to avoid MPlayer playing OGG sound files, which have the same magic identifier)
pause and seek in files from within xmms
Constant, skinned and dockable video window (can be turned off in options)

XMMPlayer now features a fully skinned, dockable video window (if you don't like it, you can turn it off in the options). The window uses the same skin as the playlist window. You can only close the window when mplayer is not running, you can minimize at all times. The window will not appear until it is needed for the first time (the first time XMMPlayer decides to play something). Switching to full screen is not possible at the moment.

VCD / DVD

If you want to play a VCD or DVD (or add it to the playlist) you can do so by adding an URL, vcd:// for VCD's and dvd:// for DVD's. XMMPlayer will then add an entry to the playlist called "VCD (all tracks)" or "DVD (all titles)". Once you play one of those, XMMPlayer will scan the media to see how many tracks / titles are available and add those tracks/titles to the playlist (they will appear as "VCD track <number>" or "DVD title <number>"). If you wish to add a specific track or title to the playlist, you can do so by adding an url "vcd://tracknumber" ("vcd://1" for example) or "dvd://titlenumber" ("dvd://1" for example).

STREAMING MEDIA

XMMPlayer allows you to play networked media streams. To play a HTTP stream, add location, replace "http://" with "mplayer://" in the url (this is required as the mp3 plugin for xmms seems to eat everything). To play an MMS stream, just add the location of the mms url.

KNOWN ISSUES

XMMPlayer can cause an infinite loop if mplayer was compiled with XMMS input plugin support (mplayer tries to open XMMPlayer, which tries to open mplayer which tries to open XMMPlayer, etc)
XMMPlayer refuses to play OGM files that don't have a .ogm extension

Project Links

The project homepage is:
http://thegraveyard.org/xmmplayer.php

The homepage of MPlayer is:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/