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Xine is an engine which allows to play audio CDs, DVDs, VCDs, various audio and video formats like AVI, WMV, MOV to list a few. The last version of xine-lib is 1.1.15, released on August 14, 2008.Installation in Debian LennyTo compile from source and i…
Some of us playing Unreal Tournament 2004 may be familiar with the error open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Resource temporarily unavailable. This is usually caused because the sound system is busy (for example, you have an audio player opened, or a paused movie)….
The new Banshee 1.2 includes several new features over the last stable release, like the equaliser or the music recommendations panel. The full list of new or improved features is here. For those who didn’t hear about Banshee yet, it’s a pretty powerfu…
Banshee is a powerful audio player written using GTK, featuring audio and video libraries, support for podcasts and much more. The last version, 1.2, was released on July 30, 2008.1. Install the necessary dependenciesAs root, type:apt-get install build…
SMPlayer Review – One of the Most Powerful Video Players for LinuxSMPlayer is a complete video player built in Qt 4.4.0 and based on the powerful, open-source MPlayer.XChat 2.8.6 Review – A Great Graphical IRC ClientXChat is a very powerful IRC client …
Since I’m an IRC addict and I always liked to spend time learning new stuff on IRC, here is a review of several IRC clients for Linux. Some of them are well-known and popular, like XChat, Konversation or Irssi, and others are not so widely used or know…
Listen is a not so widely known audio player written in Python and using the GTK toolkit, with an interface similar to the one of Rhythmbox, and including features like a music library, podcasts support, lyrics fetching, Wikipedia integration, and Last…
Code::Blocks is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for C and C++, built using the wxWidgets kit.The latest version is 8.02, available for download from the official downloads page. To install the dependencies, use:apt-get install build-essenti…
