Aldegonde

Aldegonde is a simple and efficient media player based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. It supports all file formats supported by GStreamer, including Ogg (Theora, Vorbis, Speex, FLAC), ASF (WMV/WMA, ...), AVI (DivX, XviD, MJPEG, ...), Quicktime (Sorensen, MPEG-4, ...), MPEG (1, 2, 4) and so on. It will also play audio-CDs, video-CDs and DVDs. The primary purpose of Aldegonde is to be a simple example application. It includes a very simple, to-the-point Gtk+ video widget for GStreamer, and it also contains code for automatic disc content detection (VCD, DVD, audio-CD). The whole of Aldegonde is basically a test bed for features in Totem, which is the official GNOME video/media player.

Features

Aldegonde is simple, to-the-point and has no more features than are needed to playback media. It exists as a test-bed and a show-off method for GStreamer. For any desktop use, you should use Totem. Currently, Aldegonde supports the following features:

• Support for all popular media formats, including Ogg, AVI, ASF, MPEG and Quicktime.
• Automatic disc content detection. Insert an audio-CD, DVD or VCD and Aldegonde will automatically detect disc type and load the appropriate playback backend.
• Automatic size handling
• Metadata loading support
• Full-screen support

Requirements

• GStreamer 0.8.7 or (preferred) CVS
• GStreamer plugins 0.8.6 or (preferred) CVS
• GStreamer ffmpeg 0.8.2 or (preferred) CVS
• All plugin dependencies for which you want support

Availability

Aldegonde is not available as a release. New tarballs are regularly uploaded to http://ronald.bitfreak.net/priv/aldegonde-0.0.1.tar.gz. There is no public CVS repository for Aldegonde as of now.

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