Free linux multimedia player 2.5 software for linux

LiMP is a a tiny LIVE CD based linux distro, that loads into memory and works only in the memory. This is the easiest, simpler yet powerful distro that works in all computers (PIII onwards).
Linux Multimedia Player supports most of the known formats, let it be mpeg-I, or mpeg-II, or divx, or wmv,qt-mov,real video for video and for audio mp3,wav,wma, ogg, real audio. It has the auto detection of partitions (ide or sata or scsi), sound cards,video cards, network cards and supports all the the cards as of kernel 2.6.13. It identifies the Partitions and mounts in the folder START.
It has the network support, which can be configured inside the GUI. It also mounts the Windows Shares, Linux Smb shares in the folder START.
It is complete tiny OS, with menu driven option and requires no knowledge of linux. All in a embedded image file of size 35 MB that gives you the entertainment. It can be easily integrated into WINDOWS XP/2000/98/95 or in linux boot loader or boot from cdrom.
LiMP distro runs only from memory and so CDROM/DVD is free to use. LiMP is completely safe to use as it mounts the partitions (NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS) and windows / linux shares in READONLY mode.
Computer Shutdown schedule for bed time listeners. It supports viewing encrypted DVDs (Zone set DVDs). User has to option to load his favorite language font, for viewing subtitle User can set his favorite skin for xmms as default so that it loads on startup.
It runs a vnc server and can be accessed remotely from any vnc client.
Enhancements:
- The kernel was updated to 2.6.21.1.
- ALSA was updated to 1.0.14rc3.
- Idesk, a desktop program, was added.
- Mplayer, conky, and openbox were updated.
- Xdialog was added, providing an even easier interface.
- LiMP includes compressed cache to give better performance (http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/).

LMMS is a project trying to create a gui for TV that can be used with a gamepad/joystick. In future there shall be various applications for playing audiofiles (Ogg-Vorbis, MP3, WMA, CD etc) and videofiles (DivX, MPEG, DVD, TV etc). Games and other stuff (recording TV etc) are planed too.

For now the whole project is written in python/pygame and there are some applications available:

Menu - for choosing another application
Image-Viewer - as the name says, it will allow you to watch some images
CD-Player - for playing Audio-CDs
Audio-Player - with support for Ogg and MP3

Actually the following gamepads/joysticks are supported:

Gravis Gamepad Pro
Microsofts X-Box pad
Nintendos SNES pad

Gecko Multimedia System is a complete media solution, able to play almost all media types and supports scheduled tv-recording from online tv-guides.

It is intended to replace your VCR, DVD, MP3- and CD-player into one single software-unit. It is mainly for use in Linux-systems (well, its the only system Ive tried it on).

Please note that Gecko requires VRD to be able to record television. VRD is not yet 100% functional.

Ubuntu Multimedia Center is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with community and professional support. Ubuntu Multimedia Center is developed by Zach Thibeau but I want you to participate too!

WARNING! Users in countries that dont allow use of mp3 playback or DVD playback are advised to remain using the regular release of Ubuntu.

BMP is a multimedia player that currently uses a skinned user interface based on Winamp 2.x skins.

The original project name was "beep". Then we discovered that another project of the same name existed, and extended it to "Beep Media Player" to distinguish the two.

This new name is of course cumbersome to type, so it was informally shortened to BMP (or sometimes BeepMP) for everyday usage. Along the way, somehow or another, some of the developers no longer recognize it as an acronym. There is still no official word on whether to drop the original form. But whatever happens, the name BMP is here to stay.

Milosz Derezynski started hacking on XMMS alone in the fall of 2003 and eventually made it compile against GTK+2. He went on to release it to the public under the name Beep and stirred up considerable interest among XMMS users who were eager to move their favourite application to GTK+2. From that moment on, the way was clear.

StartCom Linux is based on the Red Hat AS source code.
Specially designed for the demanding home user, the MultiMedia Edition lets you easily communicate with your friends and family members over the Internet, browse the news or watching the latest DVD movie you just bought.
Listen to your loved Music while you check your email or play some funny game while you burn a CD, everything is easily accessible from your desktop by a click on your mouse button.
System configuration and adjustments of your preferences never have been so simple, thanks to the integrated configuration tools.
Enhancements:
- StartCom has released its new Multimedia Edition, ML-5.0.5, code named Kessem. Its probably one of the largest and most complete Linux distributions ever released to the public. Release ML-5.0.5, offers many out-of-the-box capabilities, never bundled with an operating system before. Designed as a multimedia workstation with music studio and advanced video editing applications, it also provides the desktop user with the most applications for day to day use.

MPEG4IP provides an end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia. The package includes many existing open source packages and the "glue" to integrate them together. This is a tool for streaming video and audio that is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions.

Provided are a live MPEG-4/H.261/MPEG-2/H.263 MP3/AAC/AMR broadcaster and file recorder, command line utilities such as an MP4 file creator and hinter, and an player that can both stream and playback from local file.

Our development is focused on the Linux platform, and has been ported to Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSD/OS and Mac OS X, but it should be relatively straight-forward to use on other platforms. Many of the included packages are multi-platform already. Mp4live only works on Linux.

This code is not intended for end users, and does not contain executables. Please read all the legal information to determine if it is suitable for you.

File formats:
avi, mp4, limited .mov, .mpg (transport and program streams), .wav, raw aac, raw mp3, raw mp4v, raw .h264

Video codecs:
mpeg-4 (xvid, xvid-1.0, ISO reference), mpeg1/2 (libmpeg3, mpeg2dec), H.261, YUV (i420 raw)
Through ffmpeg: h.263, Sorenson, some MJPEG, H.264

Audio Codecs:
aac (faad, faad2 with seperate download), mp3, celp, ac3 (with seperate download), raw PCM, G.711 alaw and ulaw
Through ffmpeg: AMR NB, AMR WB, G.711 alaw and ulaw

Streaming capability:
RTSP, SDP, RTP (rfc 3551 for raw audio, 2250 for mpeg1/2 audio and video, 3016 for mpeg4 video, 3119 for mp3, 3640 for aac/celp audio, 3267 for AMR octet-aligned only, 3984 for h.264), mpeg2 transport streams (mpeg2 video, mp3 and ac3 audio), both multicast and streaming.
Supports http fetch of sdp files.

Other features:
1/2, double and full screen video, change aspect ratio of video
Audio should be able to convert channels and format to match any hardware, but not frequency.

IsmaCryp 1.0 specification is supported for local playback and streaming playback.

cd player is a really small cd player for Linux with a curses-like user interface.
Main features:
- mcdp is a small (maybe the smallest) cd-player for _linux_
- it compiles/runs out off the box
- it can be compiled against dietlibc (~16kb static!)
- working play methods: reapeat cd, repeat track and intro
- since version 0.3a, minimal cddb title download is also included