top Introduction
libplayer is a multimedia A/V abstraction layer API. Its goal is to interact with Enna Media Center.
libplayer provides a generic A/V API that relies on various multimedia player for Linux systems. It currently supports MPlayer, xine VLC and GStreamer only.
Its main goal is to provide an unique API that player frontends can use to control any kind of multimedia player underneath. For example, it provides a library to easily control MPlayer famous slave-mode.
libplayer is free software - it is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU/LGPL) version 2.1+.
top Latest News
libplayer is work in progress right now. If you're interested in its development, you're highly welcomed to join in.
Current stable release is 2.0.1, featuring with the following changes :
- Fix a segmentation fault with XCB.
Changes in 2.0.0 :
- XCB is used instead of Xlib
- VDPAU support with xine and MPlayer
- Support for VAAPI and DirectFB in some backends
- Improvements in the GStreamer and VLC backends (still experimental).
- ... Many other changes, look at ChangeLog
Currently supported multimedia players :
Previous stable release
Changes in 1.0.0 :
- Initial project release
- MPlayer and xine backends are well supported
top Copyright and License
libplayer is copyright (C) 2006-2010 Benjamin Zores, Mathieu Schroeter.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
top Documentation
More documentation will be provided in some time.
You can find the public API documentation
HTML
/
PDF
automatically generated from the libplayer source code, using
Doxygen.
top Download
The currently available libplayer release is 2.0.1.
Sources can be downloaded
here.
Development Tree
The latest libplayer development tree can be grabbed using Git, a revision control system, similar in purpose to tools such as CVS, SCCS, SVN and Arch. It is used to keep track of the changes made to a source tree and to help programmers combine and otherwise manipulate changes made by multiple people or at different times.
There are currently 2 ways of accessing the Git tree : via command-line or (to just have a look to some changes on a specific file, for example) You can directly access to the web interface with your browser from :
In order to access to Git via command line, create and enter a new
directory and do the following (be sure that you have installed the
git package).
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To get a local copy of the libplayer repository :
git clone https://github.com/GeeXboX/libplayer.git
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To update your local copy of the Mercurial, synchronizing with our
server :
git pull
topFeedback
The authors of libplayer and this document, can be contacted by e-mail.
Please send bug reports, suggestions, ideas, comments or patches to the GeeXboX devel mailing list : devel@geexbox.org