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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?

    1. Re:Waht does this mean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Define "avergae".

    2. Re:Waht does this mean? by Repugnant_Shit · · Score: 2

      Hopefully this means it will compile for me. The last release candidate won't build for me at all.

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    3. Re:Waht does this mean? by ScriptGuru · · Score: 2

      Pretty much the same thing as every other release. More stability.

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    4. Re: Waht does this mean? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny


      > What does this mean for the avergae user?

      You can watch movies while waiting for your spellchecker to catch up.

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  2. 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.