The GeeXboX team proudly announced a few days ago, on June 19th, the release of their media center Linux distribution, GeeXboX 1.2.2. This new version boasts quite a few exciting new features, of which the most important one has to be the experimental support for multi-threading video decoding. What does that mean?... |
22 June 2009
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The multitude of media devices on the market compel the user to convert video and audio files into various formats. You have MP4, MP3, OGG, AVI, MPEG, OGG, WMV, ASF, QT, FLV, MKV, VOB, DV, WAV and that's already too much. So, a universal video and audio converter to fulfill your needs would be godsend these days... |
17 February 2009
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After months and months of hard work, the GeeXboX development team proudly announced, on the last day of January, the immediate availability of GeeXboX 1.2, a Live CD based on the number one Linux multimedia player, MPlayer. The new release of GeeXboX is also the last one from the 1.x series and it introduces support... |
1 February 2009
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Many applications come and go everyday from our computers and, in the end, only the best remains. Therefore, we thought it was a good idea to pick ten of the best open source applications of the year that passed. The following classification is not a "who's the best or worst app" kind of list, it was made based ... |
31 December 2007
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You know, I was just thinking the other day about MPlayer 1.0 final and whether (when it will be released) it will have a different (better) GUI. Will it support more of the new technologies regarding video and audio streams? Well, the answer is about to be revealed, as last night, MPlayer 1.0 RC2 was released and it... |
8 October 2007
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Linux has its video players, just as any other operating system has. So, even if there are only two big engines out there (mplayer and xine) and most of the applications listed below are front-ends for these engines, I thought it would be very helpful for Linux newbies to know and get familiar with the features that ... |
11 July 2007
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GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution coming as a standalone LiveCD, works on any Pentium-class x86 computer or PowerPC Macintosh, with no software requirement. It does not require free hard drive space as it is loaded in RAM. The distro is enhanced with automatic hardware detection, therefore no driver nee... |
2 July 2007
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