Several recommended players

Several recommended players-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. The following is a detailed description. Freeamp 2.1.0



Freeamp is a GPL-compliant audio player that features Free and cross-platform (Windows and Linux are supported at the same time) usage. Although the supported formats are slightly thin, the overall interface and operation methods reflect a lot of user-friendly design. The latest version 2.1.0 has also improved its functions.



Installing Freeamp 2.1.0 is cumbersome, and its for release needs to be compiled and installed separately.



As soon as you enter the FreeAmp main interface, it will give you a simple and clear feeling. In the light gray shell, there will be a large playback window, the prompts and playback information of all function buttons are displayed on this screen, which makes it easy for you to know the playback information at any time. The buttons and options of each function are clearly displayed.



Freeamp supports mp3 audio files that we are most familiar with in the playback function and supports CD playback. Although there are few playback formats, It is very consistent with the overall concise style, as the most widely used file format, MP3 and CD are enough for us to enjoy music. If you try not to select any song for the first time, go to "Play" and you will be surprised to find that it will pop up a window, follow the Wizard to set "My Music" -- yes, this is the personal Music database function of FreeAmp. In fact, this function is not a new idea, similar to audio playback software, many have such a "Media File Manager" tool. Their advantages are self-evident. They can not only classify and keep their tracks, but also make their favorite "albums" and play them through playlist playlists, it is really convenient. You can use "my music" to save the playlist and cdns, set your favorite music website, and connect to the FreeAmp Internet Database (Musicbrainz, listen online, understand track information, and make track information. Other basic functions such as loop playback, countdown, sound channel balancing, and buffer settings are also available.



In general, Freeamp is a clever cross-platform audio player that provides the main playback and control functions to facilitate normal Mp3 and CD file playback, this also reflects its overall style-although not gorgeous, it is very practical.



Xmms 1.2.6 Pre1



Those familiar with Linux must know the name of Xmms. Xmms (X MultiMedia System) is a dedicated MultiMedia player designed for Xwindows. It is one of the excellent MP3 players in Linux, most Linux versions use this product as the standard audio player in Linux. Select Xmms1.2.6 Pre1 (released in 2001.12.4) as the test version ).



After testing Xmms, everyone will feel familiar-indeed, from any perspective, Xmms is very similar to the excellent playing software Winamp in Windows, whether it is the panel design, functional buttons, or even internal fonts, it is almost the best. In this way, Xmms also has an excellent temperament, rich and practical functions, and beautiful interface, it is indeed the general of the Linux audio player.



The Xmms playback interface consists of three main windows: The main playback control window, the balancer tuning window, And the playback list window. Each window has a specific function module, which is clear and easy to use. As a whole, it has very powerful functions and is limited to space. I will not go into details here. In short, most common functions under Winamp can be used, such as Directory playback, online playback, screen amplification, top layer, loop playback, sound channel balancing, and other detailed settings are in place and comprehensive. The following describes some special functions.



"Playlist" is an embodiment of the mature Xmms design. This function is no weaker than the player in Windows. It gives users more space and freedom to edit the list, and allows single and group to save the list, changes the playing sequence in real time. Users can easily control the playing of the songs in the list, making it convenient and flexible. A major feature of Xmms is its powerful "plug-in", which gives it a wealth of features, in addition to its own visual effect plug-ins, users can also log on to their websites to download various functional plug-ins, such as MMX, LCD, and VQF plug-ins. As a result, Xmms supports song formats, appearances, effects, and basic functions, it can be said that everything is available, as long as the manufacturer develops it, it can be added at any time, powerful functions.



In general, Xmms is a mature "MP3" playing software. The interface window is rich and powerful, and supports Chinese Song names. The disadvantage is that the playback list window cannot be scaled up automatically when the playback page is scaled up in double mode. However, the imperfect details do not affect the overall playback function of the software, it is a good choice for MP3 playing software in Linux.



RealPlayer 8.0.3.421



I believe everyone is familiar with RealPlayer, which is a low-loss transmission software for audio and video multimedia at low bandwidth. It has superb online streaming media playing capabilities, rm and ra files are widely favored by netizens and become one of the main formats of media files. The Linux version of RealPlayer is also highly practical and adds a brilliant color to the Streaming Media Player in Linux.



It is no different from RealPlayer on Windows. After startup, enter personal information and network information to prepare for playing online streaming media. The overall interface style is exactly the same as the windows version. The blue and gray mysterious and elegant combination gives you a stylish and bright feeling.



The main function of RealPlayer is to play streaming media files in rm, ra, and other formats. The tested version also supports playing MP3 files. By downloading the plug-in, you can also perform WAV playback. There are not many supported formats, but they are more practical. Compared with realplayer in Windows, the Linux version features a little thin. The main setting items focus on performance control such as CPU usage adjustment and buffer settings, in addition, settings such as network transmission mode, latency, and bandwidth are provided to identify the user's network environment and adjust the online playback feature to achieve the best online playback effect.



In the consistent style of realplay, its biggest feature still exists in the network playing field. After installation, it will automatically create an online playing plug-in for the browser (Mozilla, however, if your system settings are in the Netscape folder by default, you must manually copy them to Mozilla's plugins for use. You can directly select the online ra/rm file for real-time playback. Due to its consistent network style, as a local player, some common features such as sound channel balancing and sound control are not provided in Windows. During use, we also found that RealPlayer only supports double-screen amplification, but does not support window maximization. garbled characters are displayed when Chinese names are displayed, these will cause inconvenience to the user in the actual use process.



RealPlayer is really good as an online streaming media player. It is basically a lite version of realplay in Windows. If it can provide better functions locally, it will become a better player.



Good brother of X11amp-Winamp



X11amp is a graphical Media Player based entirely on Linux (Xwindows. In terms of appearance and function, the X11amp player has the same function as the Winamp in Windows. Of course, it also integrates some features of Linux. Select the test version as the X11amp-0.9-beta1.1-1.



Like a player, the X11amp interface provides buttons for playing, stopping, pausing, redirecting, and loop playback. Function adjustment includes playback progress, volume control, and left-right channel regulator. On the Basic Information Display page, you can view the total time, play time, remaining time, track name, file name, and file quality. During playing, you can also display the spectrum of different appearances.



X11amp has rich functions, which is also compatible with Winamp. First, it has a strong plug-in function. You can use the plug-in to implement sound input/output and effect selection functions, such as MirMod player, MPEG layer 1/2/3, and wave player, you can use plug-ins to play different audio files, which is highly scalable. X11amp also supports the EQ balancer setting function, which can correctly implement sound balancing settings. The playlist function is in place and supports continuous playback of multiple files, grouped playback, and list display, you can also customize the playback sequence in the list by dragging the mouse. In addition to dynamic plug-ins, the visual effects also provide various forms of spectra. These functions all reflect that the X11amp software is relatively mature, providing users with conventional functions and supporting advanced development.



The X11amp playing field is not ideal for Chinese support. Because it does not recognize Chinese file names, files with the same length may even be considered as the same file, it is difficult to select and list playback. In addition, some menu items such as Always on top and skins are not perfect, and some exceptions occur.



In short, X11amp provides common player functions and advanced scalability. The interface is simple and easy to use, especially for those who are familiar with winamp. The features of the set-up function, loop playback point, and edit the playlist all reflect their maturity and excellence. Of course, there are still some unsatisfactory features in Chinese support, let's look forward to a more comprehensive version.

Winamp 3.0 Alpha



I think many people will find this name very friendly. Winamp is well known in the "Windows world", and even a lot of multimedia playing software have followed suit. It has developed its own version, and its design of humanization and functionality is very mature. However, the player, born from the "Win" family, is not doing well in Linux? -- Linux's "winamp fans" can cheer up, because the Linux Winamp only designs an interface for the Linux platform software based on the windows version, this ensures smooth operation on the Linux platform. It is conceivable that its appearance and functions are basically the same as those in Windows.



I believe everyone is familiar with the various playback control functions of Winamp, the editing of playlist, and the use of plug-ins. Here, we will not briefly introduce various Winamp functions. Some basic features and functions are identical to windows Winamp. Similarly, as long as you can find enough plug-ins, it can have more functions and effects to meet various user needs. If you observe carefully, you will find that Xmms and Winamp are very similar in interface and function. If you haven't used Winamp, you can take a look at the Xmms introduction.



The important point is that Winamp has shortcomings in Linux. We hope Winamp can be used in cross-platform development to make better applications for users, hope you can give a reference to your friends who want to select Winamp. The biggest problem with Winamp in Linux is that its compatibility and stability are not ideal. It cannot be run on some Linux systems, and sometimes the program exits abnormally during use. This is a complicated problem. Our analysis may be related to the imperfect Linux platform interfaces. After all, this is not a software fully developed on the Linux platform, but just a platform transplant. In addition, Winamp does not support Chinese file names in Linux, which affects user selection. The installation method does not provide the wizard mode, which is inconvenient.



As a mature media playback software, Winamp has many functions and ease-of-use that cannot be surpassed by the software. The Linux version of Winamp adheres to this feature and can provide users with an excellent aspect.



Xmcd 3.0 PLO



As the name suggests, Xmcd is a CD player. Although it supports a single file format, it is quite powerful than the CD playback function.



The Xmcd installation method is special. We downloaded the source code package and needed to compile and install it. After unzipping, generate the Xmcd-3.0 directory, first modify the properties of the install. sh installation script file to the executable file. Then run the file to start installation. The installation is particularly important because it will ask users questions in the form of text lines, such as the location of the X binary directory, the installation location of the xmcd library, the type of the optical drive, and the interface form. After answering these questions, the installation process is complete. You can directly execute the xmcd file in the/usr/X11R6/bin directory to start the program. This is the only software that provides a Installation Wizard among all the selected software. Of course, this is related to the software design. It may indicate that the software cannot automatically obtain hardware information. Although most projects provide default installation methods, you only need to press enter to complete the settings of most projects. However, some projects require you to have a certain understanding of hardware devices and terms, otherwise, the installation may be difficult.



The Xmcd playback interface is not large, and all buttons occupy half of the interface space. This may make friends who are using Xmcd for the first time feel a little uncomfortable. Many buttons do not see the functional operations they actually represent. Fortunately, the buttons and prompts of the software are relatively complete. by moving the mouse, the function operations represented by them are clear at a glance. In fact, if you divide all the buttons into two categories, you can see that the playing control button is on the right of the interface, including pause, track transfer, fast forward and fast return. The rest are function control buttons, such as loop playback, playing the optical drive, setting environment variables, and exiting the program.



On the top of the page is a display that displays information such as the CD index number, playback time, audio track number, and CDDB. CDDB is a CD database that stores titles and singers of each CD. Because each CD has a unique ID number, when a disc is inserted, Xmcd uses this ID number as an index to search and display relevant data in the database. At the same time, you can change the CDDB information on the local hard disk, such as changing the settings such as Album Artist and Album Title. So that the modified information can be displayed when the same CD is inserted again. Especially when a CD is inserted, the program automatically links to the CDDB server website to display information related to the CD. You can also query other information on the modified website. It can be said that the Musicbrainz functions in CDDB and Freeamp are similar.



In general, Xmcd is a very functional CD player, but the interface is a little simple. In the face of its good function settings, Xmcd is worth your choice.



Xmovie 1.5.2



Xmovie was originally used as a playback software for TV programs. Although its overall function is very simple, as a multimedia playing software in Linux, its simple and easy to use features are an ideal choice for Linux beginners.



The Xmovie playback interface is very simple. In addition to playing, fast forward, fast return, playback time display, and playback progress display, the interface has no other control functions. The menu bar at the top of the interface does not contain any playback control function. It basically controls the playback screen adjustment and environment variables.



Open the file window in Xmovie and list the Supported file formats, which is not available in other multimedia software. Xmovie supports a wide range of video formats ,*. mpg ,*. mov ,*. vob ,*. m2v and other formats are supported, and it can also play files in MP2 and MP3 audio formats. In the menu function, the most commonly used menu item is the Settings menu item. This menu provides image aspect ratio adjustment settings, including, and 2.25: 1. Here we can also see xmovie's support for MMX and multi-processor. If you are playing a video file, you can also see the number of frames to play. In terms of screen scaling, Xmovie supports three methods: the original screen, the 1/2 screen, and the double screen, but does not support full screen playback. This is a pity.



The Xmovie playback interface is relatively simple, and its playback function is also slightly weak. If you pay more attention to the above two points, you may be somewhat disappointed, but if you need software to support some special features such as multi-processor, Xmovie will be useful, as a simple video playing software, its usage is relatively low, and it provides the necessary playback functions, which are easy to understand and highly practical. Users can easily perform operations and improve the efficiency of use.



Xtheater 0.5.3



Xtheater is a multimedia audio and video playing software. It is also a practical and clever type. Because Xtheater is a packaged source code file, it will generate a xtheater-0.5.3 directory after decompression, enter the Directory and then compile and install.



The startup interface of Xtheater is very different from that of other multimedia playback software. It seems that its entire panel is only two big buttons arranged up and down, and the above is the information area of the playback file, resolution, needle rate, etc. The "pop-up" button is shown below. In fact, this is the initial interface after the software is started. It is very simple and you cannot see any function buttons. When you click the area marked with "pop-up", the Select File Dialog Box is displayed, when you select file playback, the "real" playback interface (including operation buttons) that you are familiar with will be displayed in front of you.



Xtheater can play mp3, mpg, and other files, but most fans may still use it to view video files and play mp3 and other audio files, the function is weak. In video playback, Xtheater supports online playback, loop playback, full screen playback, and other functions. It is also the only software that can play VCD. However, Xtheater still has many shortcomings in the video playback function. For example, it does not support manual adjustment of the playback position or display of no playback time. Further improvements are needed.



In general, Xtheater is not very functional on the interface. If you just use it as a tool to watch the VCD, you may still be able to choose from, in addition, its small style is easier to use, and it is an easy-to-use playback tool for beginners.