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xine-lib 1.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the non-secret-decoder-ring dept.

gooofy writes "After two years of intense testing and continuous improvement, the xine development team proudly presents the final xine-lib 1.0 release. Compared with the latest release candidate, there are not many changes. However, a security issue regarding the AIFF demuxer (CAN-2004-1300) is fixed, as well as some issues that might have appeared with the way the Xv plugin has been linked in 1-rc8. Therefore, upgrading to 1.0 is strongly recommended. Thanks to the whole xine team for making this happen!"

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  1. Waht does this mean? by pkarlos_76 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What does this mean for the avergae user?

  2. GStreamer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How does this compare to GStreamer?

    1. Re:GStreamer by andersa · · Score: 4, Interesting

      GStreamer is a framework for streaming, decoding, encoding, mixing, doing non-linear editing and outputting all kinds of multimedia.

      Xine is strictly a player library which only focusses on playback of your multimedia files. In that respect it can perhaps be described as a subset of gstreamers functionallity. But it is great at what it does.

      One day, gstreamer may replace both xine and mplayer and the existing media backends like esound and arts, to become the default media backend for both KDE and Gnome, giving both a full build in media playing capacity.