The feature list has grown bigger as well with the following new features

With integrated services like 7digital Music Store to buy MP3s, mashTape to discover Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, Google news (and more) for the currently playing artist joining along with last.fm, Concer tickets and SHOUTcast Radio

Import media from local system or from iPod

Gapless Playback & Replay Gain – Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience

Album Artwork – Display the currently playing track’s album art and write new artwork back to the file.

Library management to browser organize, sort and search your media

Integrated Web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing

Multi-Language support with over 25 languages

Automatic Updates

Install Songbird 1.1.1

Again, a big change from last time is one openSUSE user would love. Yes, we now a 1-click installer supporting openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3 hosted at Packman. To install Songbird, click this 1-click installer

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install Songbird and the dependencies. Click next on the Songbird installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Songbird and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

If gst-fluendo-mp3 package is installed on your system you may end up with the following error message during the installation.

songbird-1.1.1-0.pm.6.x86_64 requires gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3, but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.1.i586[Packman Repository]

To resolve the problem, cancel the installation and launch YaST seperately, to select to uninstall gst-fluendo-mp3 and install gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3. This should fix the dependency issue and you can start again with the 1-click install and go through with a clean installation.

Once installed, Songbird should be found under Applications – Multimedia – Audio Player.

For a quick start with media from your system, click “File – Scan Media” and choose the directory where you have your audio files.

Click Edit – Preferences to modify the default settings including settings like Security, Network,  privacy etc.

Installing addons is very easy, click the Songbird Add-ons tab and choose from the list of available add-ons. Click the Install button to install the addon. You may need to restart Songbird for the add-on to take effect.

For more information and download, click here to visit the project homepage.

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Highlighting features include

Supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac and WMA
Multiple play with options like the default flash player
Users can download single tracks, or entire albums/artists or playlists
Statistics like most played, recently popular, etc
Completely customizable/skinnable web interface
User and site playlists
Gui-less console mode for running on servers
User account control, with playlists
Uploads from users
Album art for artists and albums
Re-encoding of output streams to save bandwidth if needed
Cover Flow style artwork view
Last.fm related artist and scrobble log integration
Multi-format access logs
SSL support
Supports Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian and German language

Install Sockso Personal Music Server

To install Sockso, click this 1-click installer from Packman  supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2

This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install Sockso and the required dependencies. Click next on the Sockso installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Sockso and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

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This should install Sockso under “Applications – Multimedia“. Click Sockso to launch for the first time. For a start, click collection tab and select the directories to search and music files to your collection. Then ofcourse, you can select songs and create your own playlists which inturn will be available for users who logon to the web interface.

If you would like to create a list of users, do so from the Users tab. Users can always register from the web interface as well.

General Sockso configurations including the the webserver port number title etc, enable/disable allowing users to upload files can be done from the General tab. That pretty much should do for you to get up and running with your Sockso Personal Music server on openSUSE.

By default, the website URL will be http://<public IP>:4444 where 4444 is the port on which the webinterface is available. Sockso, picks up your public IP (your IP on the internet not the 192.168.0.x on your pc). This could be from your Router or from your own PC if you use USB modems. However, you can check if Sockso works OK from http://localhost:4444 or even your local IP (ex: 192.168.0.100:4444) if you are accessing from your local home network. As I said earlier, if there is a firewall then you need to open this port for incoming connections. You need to understand opening any port for an incoming connection can be a security issue.

As you can see, the web interface too doesn’t have too many confusing options, very few but the ones required allowing your users to quickly get listening to your music collection.

Click here to visit the project homepage.

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get_iplayer, does the downloading, indexing and searching of the iPlayer TV/Radio/ITVplayer programmes and podcasts available. It can even stream the iPlayer TV programmes while downloading them to mplayer or xine, etc. It does not circumvent any digital rights management security.

Features include,

Downloading H.264 video, and MP3 (or RealAudio) audio streams and podcasts from BBC iplayer site

Downloading WMV video from the ITV player site

PVR functionality allows predefined searches to be downloaded from a scheduler such as cron or Windows scheduler

Rewrites the movie file on-the-fly so that it can be streamed before being fully downloaded

Resume downloads of partially downloaded iPlayer video, radio and podcast files

Stream iPlayer or podcast content via mplayer or xine while downloading it

Allow multiple programmes to be downloaded in one command

Indexing of all available (i.e. listed) podcasts and BBC/ITV Radio/TV programs

Script update capability

Caching of Programme Indices

Creation of basic html and xml index files

HTTP Proxy support

Search on programme name, episode, description, channel or category

Limit search by programmes made available after a specific number of hours

Meta-tagging of downloaded iPlayer iPhone/H.264 files for importing into iTunes

Install get_iplayer

Click this 1-click installer from packman which supports openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3/10.2. This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install get_iplayer and the required dependencies. Click next on the get_iplayer installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install get_iplayer and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.

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This should install get_iplayer under /usr/bin/get_iplayer

saihari@opensuse11:~> which get_iplayer
/usr/bin/get_iplayer

get_iplayer defaults to searching for BBC TV indexes. For instance, simply run get_iplayer from the terminal window to search TV index feeds from BBC.

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer

or

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer –type tv
INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds
……………..
Added: 15:      Air a Chuan – Episode 1, ‘BBC Alba’, Factual,Scotland,History,TV, default
Added: 41:      BBC News at Ten – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC News’, News,TV, default
Added: 95:      Big Cook Little Cook: Series 3 – Optician, ‘CBeebies’, Children’s,Activities,TV, default
Added: 182:     Dè a-nis?: Series 16 – Episode 17, ‘BBC Alba’, Children’s,Scotland,Entertainment & Comedy,TV, default
Added: 219:     Gardeners’ World Top Tips – Episode 8, ‘Signed’, Factual,Homes & Gardens,Sign Zone,TV, signed
Added: 265:     Hospital 24/7 – Episode 3, ‘BBC One Wales’, Factual,Wales,Health & Wellbeing,Guidance,TV, default
Added: 296:     Inside Out South East – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC One’, Factual,News,TV, default
Added: 354:     Masters Snooker Extra: 2009 – Day 4, ‘BBC Two’, Sport,Snooker,TV, default
”’
‘
‘
679:    Young Dracula: Series 1 – Episode 3, ‘CBBC’, Children’s,Drama,TV, default
680:    Young Dracula: Series 1 – Episode 4, ‘CBBC’, Children’s,Drama,TV, default

INFO: 680 Matching Programmes

The other types are Radio and ITV,

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer –type itv
Matches:
100001: A Bit of A Do – Episode one, ‘TV Classics Comedy’
100002: A Bit of A Do – Episode six, ‘TV Classics Comedy’
…
..

You can filter down what you are looking for. Say if you are looking for indexes matching News then

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer news
Matches:
39:     BBC News at One – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC News’, News,TV, default
40:     BBC News at Six – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC News’, News,TV, default
41:     BBC News at Ten – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC News’, News,TV, default
387:    Newsnight Review – 09/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, Factual,News,Arts,Culture & the Media,TV, default
388:    Newsnight Scotland – 08/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
389:    Newsnight Scotland – 12/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
390:    Newsnight Scotland – 13/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
391:    Newsnight Scotland – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
392:    Newsnight – 08/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
393:    Newsnight – 09/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
394:    Newsnight – 12/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
395:    Newsnight – 13/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
396:    Newsnight – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC Two’, News,TV, default
397:    Newsround – 14/01/2009, ‘CBBC’, Children’s,News,TV, default
678:    World News Today – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC News 24′, News,TV, default

INFO: 15 Matching Programmes

To search news under radio,

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer –type radio
INFO: Getting radio Index Feeds
…………………………………………………
Added: 10008:   1Xtra D&B Show with Bailey – 14/01/2009, ‘BBC 1Xtra’, Radio
Added: 10050:   6 Music Plays It Again: Holloway Dreams – Episode 3, ‘BBC 6 Music’, Music,Classic
,,,
,,
13075:  World Business News – 15/01/2009, ‘BBC World Service’, Factual,Money,Radio

INFO: 134 Matching Programmes

For more options , run get_iplayer with -h arguement

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer -h

Now, to download the choosen programme,

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer –get 565
Matches:
565:    The Large Family – The Great Explorer, ‘CBeebies’, Children’s,Entertainment & Comedy,Animation,TV, default

INFO: 1 Matching Programmes
WARNING: Cannot read /home/saihari/.get_iplayer/download_history

INFO: Attempting to Download tv: The Large Family – The Great Explorer
INFO: Getting version pids for programme b0085jc5
INFO: iphone,flashhigh,flashnormal modes will be tried
INFO: Attempting to download using iphone mode
INFO: Checking existence of default version
INFO: File name prefix = The_Large_Family_-_The_Great_Explorer_b0085jc5_default
9.84MB / 48.33MB  4817kbps  20.4%, 00:01:05 remaining

The get_iplayer refreshes its programme cache every 4 hours, but you can flush the cache as follows:

saihari@opensuse11:~> get_iplayer –flush

To update to a newer version of get_iplayer,

opensuse11:~ # get_iplayer –update
INFO: Current version is 1.17
INFO: Checking for latest version from linuxcentre.net
INFO: New version 1.19 available, downloading
INFO: Copied new version 1.19 into place (previous version is now called ‘/usr/bin/get_iplayer.old’)
INFO: Please see: http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer/CHANGELOG.txt

There are more download and streaming options, click here for the authors documentation.

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Features include,

Multiple Audio formats and Radio and Podcast support with shuffle, repeat and karoake functions

Uses mPlayer or Xine engine

Reads, writes and edits audio tags with Auto tag edit tools and shows pictures included in the ID3v2 tags

Categorize albums based on artist album or genre and filter options using the above categories

Support for huge multiple playlist, with thousand of songs

Full Drag-and-Drop support. Songs can be dragged from the navigator or from the OS file system

Connect your portable player or anything that could be mounted as a file system, and view in aTunes, copy to repository, synchronize, etc.

Songs, albums or artists can be selected as favorites

Artist search tool in different web pages: YouTube, Google Video , Wikipedia, etc.

AudioScrobbler information: when a song is being played, album information, artist albums and similar artists are shown

Last.fm profile update: songs played are submitted to your Last.fm profile

Lyrics information: when a song is being played, automatically aTunes shows lyric

Subscribe your favorite podcast feeds and listen them in aTunes. Download podcast feed entries to your hard disk

aTunes includes a cd ripper tool, using cdda2wav, lame, flac and oggenc. You can select which tracks rip, and get track names and cover automatically from Amazon.

Support for optional Nero AAC encoder and CDParanoia on Mac OS X and Linux

Statitstics on Songs played, songs never played, most played etc

For a full list of features, click here

Install aTunes

Click this 1-click installer for aTunes from Packman to download the YaST Metapackage file (YMP) for aTunes on openSUSE 11.0 & openSUSE 10.3. Once downloaded, this will automatically launch with YaST Package Manager to install aTunes. Click Next on the aTunes installation window and click next on the installation proposal window showing the repositories selected and the package selection for aTunes. This adds the required repositories and downloads and installs the aTunes and relevant dependency packages. Click Finish when the installation successfully completes.

This installs aTunes under “Applications – Multimedia” as “aTunes“.

Click aTunes from the menu to launch your newly installed aTunes.Launching for the first time, aTunes prompts you to select Music repositories. These are nothing but the directories where the music files exist. Select your directories and aTunes will start populating a list of available audio files. Create your playlists or add the audios to the playlist by selecting your audio and right-click and select “Add to Playlist”

The left navigation panel allows you to choose between the repositories or favorites, radio or podcasts or songs from your own device.

Once you have populated your playlist, select and play the song or you can set to repeat play and/or shuffle the playlist.

Lets look at some of the features. Click “Tools – Stats” to have a look some of the stats including songs most played, songs never played or albums most and never played and the same with the artists.

When you choose to play radio, you can browse radio channels available online from “Tools – Radio Browser“. Select your channel of choice and simply double-click to add to your existing list.

You can also create a smart playlist with options to choose from top most played songs or albums or artists or even random set of songs

One of the useful features include, editing the tags on the music. Right-click the music file and select tags and choose to edit tags or set auto tagging feature as per per your choice.

You can set the default global options from “Edit – Preference“.

Overall aTunes simple friendly Audio player and Manager with scope to mature. Click here to visit the homepage for aTunes.

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Songbird is a free opensource customizable media player and web browse powered by Mozilla. Songbird runs on Mozilla’s XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback. For Linux & Solaris, Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework instead of VideoLAN. The Qtrax client is based on Songbird.

Some of the features of SongBird include
Cross platform support for Windows Linux and Solaris

Play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WMA

Play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms

Simple and more intuitive design. Much like Apple iTunes on the interface

Smart Playlists to dynamically updates based on set criterias

Discover concerts in your local based on artists in your library

Shoutcast Radio to stream music from Shoutcast radio directory

Last.fm integration

Customizable Add-ons to enhance SongBird

Install SongBird

There is no 1-click installer available for SongBird but it isn’t a difficulty installing SongBird. Download the latest stable release of SongBird by clicking on one of the following based on your platform

SongBird Beta (0.7.0) Linux i686

SongBird Beta (0.7.0) Linux x86_64

You can download from the a terminal window as follows:

opensuse:~ # wget http://download.songbirdnest.com/installer/linux/x86_64/Songbird_0.7.0_linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Unzip & Untar

opensuse:~ # tar -zxvf Songbird_0.7.0_linux-x86_64.tar.gz

This creates a directory “Songbird” where you downloaded and extracted the files. Change directory to the Songbird directory and start Songbird as follows:

opensuse:~ # cd Songbird

opensuse:/Songbird # ./songbird &

When started for the first time, SongBird prompts to accept the license agreement. Tick the box and click continue. This will start downloading the default addons.

Click continue on the welcome screen and select either importing directories on your computer or migrating from iTunes library

Select your choice of recommended addons and click continue

Select options on SongBird setup and click  Finish

This performs the import option (import songs from my directory here) and starts SongBird for you.

The browser tab allows you to browse and install Addons. Similar to firefox, you may be prompted to restart SongBird. If prompted, please do so.

SongBird options can be set from Tools-Options menu or from Edit -Preferences menu.

Using SongBird needs no introduction and if you are familiar with iTunes, its even more simpler!

To visit the project homepage, click here

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Features include

Watch pictures with previews and animated slideshows
Watch movies and video clips
Browse music collection by artists or albums covers
Browse internet radio and picture websites
Media Browsing using Cover flow, Grid view, List view, Drag-and-drop
Audio visualization during playback
Supports all media formats using Gstreamer multimedia framework, including H.264, MPEG 2, MPEG4, Quicktime, Windows Media, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Matroska. Commercially licensed plugins that work with GStreamer and Elisa are available from Fluendo.
Autodetection of media on your network that including Network Drives, Rhythmbox, iTunes, Windows Mediaplayer, iPods, cameras, USB hard drives
Flickr, Youtube, Shoutcast integration and basic browsing
Remote control and TouchScreen support
Samba & UPnP and DAAP shares
Automatic updates of plugins and core
Supports Themes

Install Elisa
To install elisa in openSUSE, click this 1-click installer from Packman which supports openSUSE 11.0/10.3/10.2. This will download the elisa YaSt Metapackage (YMP) file and launch YaST Package manager. Click next on the elisa install description window and click Next again on the proposal window showing the repositories and the package selection. Click Finish when it successfully completes the installation.

This installs “Elisa Media Center” under “Applications – Multimedia – Audio Player”

Click “Elisa Media Center” to start the media center. The interface is simple and easy to use and even more is full screen bringing your focus down to the media and media only.

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OpenDJMix is still in Beta and looks very promising. OpenDJMix has 4 turn tables and can support the Scratch , Drill and DJ Rewind features on each tables.

Install OpenDJMix

To install OpenDJMix click this 1-click installer from Packman which supports openSUSE 11.0 & openSUSE 10.3 (i558 & x86_64). This will download the YaST Metapackage file (YMP) and launch with YaST package Manager. Click Next in the welcome screen on the install window, click Next again on the Summary screen showing the repositories and the package selection. This will start the installation and add the repositories and install OpenDJMix and required dependencies on your openSUSE.

This installs OpenDJMix under Applications as OpenDJMix. Click OpenDJMix to launch the program.

To explore and select files, click Explorer in the bottom frame and select the folder where the music files exist. This will list the list of music files. Right-click the file and select the table on which to load the music file.

Master Volume Control, Master FX, Synchronizer etc can be controlled from the top frame.

To play and set effects like the DJRewind Drill etc, click the Table and set accordingly.

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Features include,

Fully featured Video playback support

Music Players, iPOD support to sync your musics and videos

Download or Stream podcasts and video podcasts

Listen to favorites and discover new music with free, streaming music from Last.fm

Queue up songs, videos, and podcasts on the fly

Artwork is automatically fetched as you listen

Artist/Album Browser – Filter your library or playlist by selecting artists or albums

Powerful Search and Smart Playlists

To install the latest Banshee 1.2 multimedia player, use the 1-click installs for openSUSE 11.0 and openSUSE 10.3

For openSUSE 11.0,

For openSUSE 10.3

This will start the YaST Package Manager and click Next on the Banshee 1 installation Welcom Screen.

Click next again in the Banshee install summary screen

This will install the Banshee music player and related packages and dependencies on your openSUSE.

Once installed, Banshee will be installed under Applications – Multimedia – Music Player

To set preferences, click Edit and click Preferences.

Rest of features like Create/import playlists, Add music to playlist and etc can all be done easily from the Menu.

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Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.

MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

For a list of supported Formats, Audio/Video codecs, Audio/Video output devices click here

To install Mplayer in openSUSE, follow the procedure listed below. I’ve tried the installation here onopenSUSE 11.0 but should work on openSUSE 103 and earlier as well.

Mplayer requires the following pre-requisite packages:

binutils (binutils)

GNU C Compiler (gcc)

Xorg/XFree86 (xorg-x11 & xorg-x11-devel)

Make utility (make)

FreeType fonts (freetype)

ALSA (alsa,alsa-firmware,alsa-utils,alsa-tools)

libjpeg (jpeg)

libpng

DirectFB

lame

zlib (zlib & zlib-devel)

LIVE555 Streaming Media (optional) needed for some RTSP/RTP streams

cdparanoia (built-in on openSUSE 11.0)

libxmms (xmms-lib) [optional]

libsmb [optional]

GTK2 (gtk2 & gtk2-devel)

Install the Pre-requisites

opensuse11:~ # yast2 –install binutils make gcc gtk2-devel lame DirectFB zlib zlib-devel xmms-lib xorg-x11-devel freetype alsa alsa-firmware alsa-tools alsa-utils jpeg libpng

To install Live555 Streaming Media

opensuse11:~ # yast2 –install gcc-c++

opensuse11:~ # wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz

opensuse11:~ # tar -zxvf live555-latest.tar.gz

opensuse11:~ # cd live

opensuse11:~/live # ./genMakefiles linux

opensuse11:~live # make

opensuse11:~live # cp -r live /usr/lib

Install Mplayer

Now, that we have installed all the pre-requisites. Let’s proceed to download and install the Mplayer media player. It is recommended to install Mplayer from source.

Download the Mplayer Source

The latest source files for Mplayer can be downloaded from here

opensuse11:~ # wget http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz

Unzip & Untar Source

opensuse11:~ # tar -xjf Mplayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2

Configure & Compile Source

opensuse11:~ # cd Mplayer-1.0rc2

opensuse11:~/ Mplayer-1.0rc2 # ./configure –enable-gui –enable-menu

where –enable-gui enables the GUI support

–enable-menu supports Onscreen Display (OSD)

opensuse11:~ # make

Install MPlayer

opensuse11:~ # make install

That completes the installation of core Mplayer. We now need to install the codecs:

Install Codecs

Download Codec

The latest Codec packages are available here

opensuse11:~ # http://www8.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2

opensuse11:~ # tar -xjf essential-20071007.tar.bz2

opensuse11:~ # mv essential-20071007 /usr/local/lib/codecs

Download and Install Skins

The Skins are required to start the GUI sessions (required when GUI is enabled)

There are a lot of free Skins available here

Let’s install the first on the list “Blue”

opensuse11:~ # wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2

Unzip & untar

opensuse11:~ # tar -xjf Blue-1.7.tar.bz2

opensuse11:~ # mv Blue /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/

Mplayer looks into /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ directory for the directory named “default”. So, let’s duplicate “Blue” to “default”

opensuse11:~ # cp -r Blue default

Setup OSD

When we compiled with “–enable-menu” switch, it creates menu.conf & input.conf file in “etc” directory under the source folder from where you installed Mplayer. Copy these files into the /usr/local/etc/mplayer/ directory

opensuse11:~ # cd Mplayer-1.0rc2/etc/

opensuse11:~ # cp input.conf menu.conf /usr/local/etc/mplayer/

Setup Fonts

Setup a Symbolic Link to a freetype font as follows:

opensuse11:~ # ln -s /path/to/sample_font.ttf $PREFIX/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf

Example

opensuse11:~ # ln -s /usr/local/fonts/truetype/impact.ttf /usr/local/share/mplayer/impact.ttf

Ok! we are done!!!

Let’s start mplayer. To start Mplayer in GUI mode., run “gmplayer”

opensuse11:~ # gmplayer

To start Mplayer in command line. Type “mplayer” for options.

opensuse11:~ # mplayer dvd://3

Example: To start playing title 2on a DVD

MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)

CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1

Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Playing dvd://3.

There are 33 titles on this DVD.

There are 4 chapters in this DVD title.

There are 1 angles in this DVD title.

audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 128.

audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: sv aid: 129.

audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: no aid: 130.

audio stream: 3 format: ac3 (stereo) language: da aid: 131.

audio stream: 4 format: ac3 (stereo) language: fi aid: 132.

audio stream: 5 format: ac3 (stereo) language: nl aid: 133.

number of audio channels on disk: 6.

subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: sv

subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: no

subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: da

subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: fi

subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: nl

number of subtitles on disk: 5

MPEG-PS file format detected.

VIDEO: MPEG2 720×576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)

…

..

.

Hope this was useful!

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Features include

Supports HD content and full screen viewing

Share videos like posting to social sites, email channels and videos, Import/export channels

To install Miro in openSUSE,

PackMan repositories have precompiled installation package for Miro.

Install in openSUSE 10.3 & 10.2

There is a “1 click install” available for openSUSE 10.3 & 10.2 at PackMan Repository.

http://packman.links2linux.de/package/Miro

Click the “1 click install” icon and start the downloaded file using Yast2 and follow onscreen instructions to complete the installation.

Alternatively, import PackMan packages and run the installer as follows:
In openSUSE 11.0

saihari@Linux:~# zypper ar http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/11.0 packman

In openSUSE 10.3

saihari@Linux:~# zypper ar http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.3 packman

In openSUSE 10.2

saihari@Linux:~# zypper ar http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.2 packman

Once added the PackMan repository install Miro as follows:

saihari@Linux:~# yast2 –install miro

This should install Miro on your computer.

You should now see the Miro shortcuts installed under Internet & Multimedia Start menus (KDE & GNOME)

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