Free play media software for linux

Play What I Mean project allows a user to, from a single commandline or terminal, enter a string, or list of strings, that represent what he/she wishes to have played by whatsoever media player he chooses, the default being MPlayer, and then having that particular item be found and played.
What this essentially means is that if I were to have a sudden hankering to listen to a particular song or video, lets say Ice Pick by The Pillows, which happens to be the song to a particular music video that I enjoy watching. Under the traditional methods of video viewing I would be stuck with two potential courses of action for playing this particular file:
- Change directories several times to that one folder somewhere that I "know" its in, or
- Point and Click my mouse until I find that same directory and then search through what could be countless files to find it.
Each of these prospective choices have their own inherent difficulties and ire. Using the commandline often requires alot of typing to arrive at the desired directory, often times nestled deep within the tree.
Once there your problems only multiply by the number of files you actually store in your "media" folder, try ls | moreing through a heavily populated folder looking for the name of that file you wanted to play sometime, it isnt too fun and further is a waste of my valuable time.
You may be thinking at this point that the second option, the graphical one, must be easier since its exciting, full of pictures, and frankly novel, I disagree. I may not be the best judge on this matter, seeing as how I cant see out of my right eye however, I feel that scanning through a large folder, or folders, full of files is quite a strain on the vision, and more importantly an unnescesary burden on what should be a simple matter.
Main features:
- Nestable Playlist support
- Multi-string arguments
- Transparent command option passing
- Cache for faster access of frequently played files
- Graphical configure

AT Media Page provides a simple and easy to use Plone Page which can contain ATImages.

SMPlayer is a utility to play media file via the media player MPlayer. Files can be selected by a File-Selection-Dialog or by Drag-and-Drop.

By now it supports only basic functionality:

Select File, Play File, Seek, Switch to Fullscreen, adjust volume.
During playback a progress bar is shown.

KPlayer project is a KDE media player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards.
KPlayer is available in Catalonian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Swedish languages.
Main features:
- video, audio and subtitle playback from file, URL, DVD, VCD, audio CD, TV, DVB, etc., as well as KDE I/O Slaves;
- volume, contrast, brightness, hue and saturation controls;
- zooming, full screen and fixed aspect options;
- status and progress display and seeking;
- playlist;
- message log;
- configuration dialog;
- file properties for setting file specific options.

My Media System is a media system with you in control. It lets other applications such as MPlayer, VDR, or Xine take care of what they respectively do best, and integrates them into one system, that is easy to understand and operate.

By combining their individual strength, you get the best of all worlds, in one media application.

MMS is easy to install, configure and use. Its even translated to 9 languages so there a good chance its available in your native tongue.

mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play digital media from websites.

This plug-in gives Mozilla the ability to play media from a website the net without reading the source html and getting the url manually.

Media is played embedded in the page or in a separate window depending on how the author of the webpage intended the media to be seen.

Media Listings project aims to provide a comfortable way to see the TV listings of supported TV channels. More exactly, it displays defined number of programs, which are yet to come, based on current date and time.

Clicking one of the displayed programs will start your default browser and navigate to appropriate additional info page of the program.

Whaaw! Media Player is an audio/video player using gstreamer (like totem but without GNOME dependencies).

Whaaw! Media Player will play any audio/video files which gstreamer can play. It supports fullscreen mode, seeking, changing video colour settings and more. It is inteded to be a basic media player similar to totem.