Aldegonde 0.0.1 review

Aldegonde is a simple and efficient media player based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. It supports all file formats sup

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 332K Developer: Ronald Bultje

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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 (XviD, MJPEG, DivX ...), Quicktime (MPEG-4, Sorensen, ...), 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.

Here are some key features of "Aldegonde":
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