Free smpeg software for linux

SMPEG is SDL MPEG Player Library.

SMPEG is based on UC Berkeleys mpeg_play software MPEG decoder and SPLAY, an mpeg audio decoder created by Woo-jae Jung. We have completed the initial work to wed these two projects in order to create a general purpose MPEG video/audio player for the Linux OS.

Based on our initial work, SMPEG is able to playback MPEG video with sound on Pentium II based systems. SMPEG does not achieve adequate performance on slower systems.
SMPEG is offered under the GNU Library Public License (LGPL).

We hope that by making this tool available to the open source community that others will be able to use it for their own products, and that this tool can be expanded and enhanced for everyones benefit.

dumpmpeg is a simple program that allows you to dump frames from mpeg movies. Future features may include dumping of the audio as well.
To install dumpmpeg, you need the SMPEG and SDL libraries installed. Currently you need the latest CVS versions of both.
Check http://www.libsdl.org/ and http://cvs.lokigames.org/ for more information on how to retrieve them. The normal smpeg homepage is http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3 but the release
version is too old.
Compilation steps are next:
1) Run ./configure
2) Run make
3) Run make install
Enhancements:
- Release: dumpmpeg 0.6 released.
- dumpmpeg.1.in, dumpmpeg.c: Updated copyright dates.
- dumpmpeg.c (main): Always use 32 bpp visual and dont use SDL_ASYNCBLIT flag. This seems to fix the problem with blank images being dumped.

FmpegPlayer is an MP3/MPEG/audio CD player for Linux. It combines smpeg, SDL, mpg123, and gtkhtml in an original way. It contains a built-in browser for radio channels from shoutcast.com, allowing you to listen to a channel directly in your player with a single click.

There is also a "jukebox" function that allows you to queue up files in a secondary playlist. The songs in the jukebox-list will be played and then removed from the jukebox-playlist, but they will remain in the original playlist. Other features are: CDDB-support for audio CDs, a track editor for audio CDs, a 16-band graphical EQ, and a dockable applet.

SDL_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library. SDL_mixer supports any number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music, mixed by the popular MikMod MOD, Timidity MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, and SMPEG MP3 libraries.

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."

Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS Classic, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. There is also code, but no official support, for Windows CE, AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, NetBSD, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, and SymbianOS.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, Eiffel, Java, Lua, ML, Perl, PHP, Pike, Python, and Ruby.

Makepack project is a Makefile which together with a settings file and some simple rule files are able to download, compile and install software for your Slackware installation.

As the installation is done using checkinstall a Slackware package is also created at the same time.

The big strenght of makepack is that it has mechanisms to keep track of dependencies when downloading and installing software.

Exemple:

$ make list

Numeric: Python package for scientific computing
SDL_image: Image file loading library
SDL_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library.
SDL_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications.
angrydd: Angry, Drunken Dwarves, falling blocks puzzle game
atlas: Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
easytag: graphical (gtk) mp3 id3 tag editor
flac: library for Free Lossless Audio Codec
id3lib: library for mp3 id3 tags
ms-sys: Utility for writing microsoft compatible boot records
numpy: Python package for scientific computing
pygame: A set of Python modules designed for writing games
qemu: Generic processor emulator
smpeg: SDL MPEG Player Library

Whats New in This Release:

Upgraded the following rules:
MPlayer to version 1.0rc1
MPlayer_win_codecs to version 20061022, also
placed this file on a mirror as previos
versions has been removed from mplayerhq.
dvdauthor to version 0.6.14
gpgme to version 1.1.4
gphoto2 to version 2.3.1
jack to version 0.103.0
kqemu to version 1.3.0pre9, also changed dependencies so that
kqemu now depends on qemu instead of qemu depending on
kqemu. This might make sense for future versions of qemu
which might use kvm instead of kqemu.
qemu to version 0.9.0, qemu will not compile with gcc 4 which is
included with Slackware 12. Also, once compiled it does not
seem very stable.
lame to version 3.97
libdv to version 1.0.0
libdvdread to version 0.9.7
libggi to version 2.2.2
libgphoto2 to version 2.3.1
libgii to version 1.0.2
libgpg-error to version 1.5
libquicktime to version 1.0.0
libmpeg3 to version 1.7
libtheora to version 1.0alpha7
mjpegtools to version 1.9.0rc2
mpeg2dec to version 0.4.1
mplayerplug-in to version 3.40
nas to version 1.9
sylpheed to version 2.4.4
transcode to version 1.0.3
valgrind to version 3.2.3
xvidcore to version 1.1.3

New rules. Support for the following applications:
FileRunner http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
Image-ExifTool http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
bfr http://www.glines.org/wiki/bfr
cdlabelgen http://www.aczoom.com/tools/cdinsert/
cstream http://www.cons.org/cracauer/cstream.html
cvsgraph http://www.akhphd.au.dk/~bertho/cvsgraph/
ddd http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
However, ddd does not compile on Slackware 12
dvgrab http://www.kinodv.org/
epstool http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm
gocr http://jocr.sourceforge.net/
gscanbus http://gscanbus.berlios.de/
gtimer http://www.k5n.us/gtimer.php
jhead http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
kdiff3 http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
nedit http://www.nedit.org/
mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/
pstoedit http://www.pstoedit.net/
rpc.rstatd http://rstatd.sourceforge.net/
saytime http://www.acme.com/software/saytime/
tor http://tor.eff.org/
wine http://www.winehq.org/

Support for the following libraries:
libavc1394 http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394/
libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
libevent http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
libmpcdec http://www.musepack.net/
libraw1394 http://www.linux1394.org/
libiec61883 http://www.linux1394.org/
onig http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/
x264 http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

Wildcards in REMOVE_FROM_PACKAGE now also works with newer
versions of tar.
This version of makepack is supposed to work with
Slackware 12. Unfortunately ddd does not compile on
Slackware 12 because of broken header files from X.org or
lesstif. If you really want ddd on Slackware 12 there are
instructions out there on how to modify those header files.

Xtheater is a MPEG-1 player in GTK+ capable of playing MPEG-1 format streams from file, http, and VCD with seek capability.
Xtheater is a Media Player for linux capable of playing MPEG video and audio files, network streams, and VCDs, as well as AVI and ASF files. It accompishes this through the use of libaviplay and smpeg.
It tries to keep things simple and straightforward to provide the simplest, most stable behavior as possilbe, while at the same time offering a nice featureset.
Installation:
Installation of Xtheater is not the easiest install in the world. But it is also far from the hardest install. First you must install the following packages:
X11 - Required for everything. All modern *nix include this
Glib/GTK - Required for everything, 1.2.x
SDL - Required for everything, 1.2.x
SMPEG - Required for MP3/MPG/VCD playback, 0.4.3 or higher.
avifile - Required for AVI/ASF playback, from CVS repository
Avifile can be compiled without qt, so dont worry if you do not have qt, it will just not build some of the sample applications, sych as aviplay.
If you wish to install as much from binary packages, in general, the following package names will indicate binary packages of requirements listed above:
glib
glib-devel
gtk+
gtk+-devel
SDL
SDL-devel
smpeg
smpeg-devel
For AVI/ASF playback, you will have to get it from CVS, no binary packages are available. Note also that to get libaviplay to work properly it needs to be linked with libXxf86vm on some systems. do this by adding -lXxf86vm to the LIBS line of the lib/Makefile from the avifile tree.
After you have installed all prerequisite pacakges, you run ./configure. Before running configure, you may wish to read up on GL support. It can be enabled at this stage, but is not configured by default, for reasons explained in the GL section linked to previously.
After you have ran ./configure in the Xtheater directory to your liking, make install will put all the files in the right place. By default, the configuration is stored at /usr/local/Xtheater/config. the binary is placed at /usr/local/bin/xtheater, player plugins are in /usr/local/Xtheater/player/, and ui plugins are in /usr/local/Xtheater/ui/. None of this needs to be known for install, but is provided for reference here.
You should now be ready to run xtheater and have fun. Basic operation will be described in the next section, but this is very straightforward, so no instruction is needed, just provided for completeness.
Whats New in 1.0.0 pre1 Release:
- Fix check for smpeg, SDL, and avifile to check for a more current version.
- Enhanced flexibility of MPG/VCD fullscreen, allowing to choose scaling rather than a vidmode change.
- Fixed bug with smpeg plugin being run on X drivers with XVideo extension.
- Added support for XVideo extension for all player plugins, will automatically take advantage of XVideo overlays when available for scaling, revert to software scaler if unavailable
- made GL support with Mpeg compile if available, it is not recommended unless you have no other choice, however.
- Updated AVI/ASF plugin to use avifile-0.6 CVS rather than stable version.
- Enhanced plugin framework somewhat.
- Made it so that MPEG media could be closed by closing the playback window.
- Fixed bug where openeing too many files sequentially would cause player to crash (contributed by John Thacker)
Whats New in 0.9.2 Release:
- Fixed Seekbar to not update while being dragged.
- Designed for latest official stable avifile release (0.53.x)
- DPMS disabled for older XFree versions.
- Fixed drag and drop with nautilus file manager.
- Memory leak fixes by John Thacker