Re: GMedia v0.1

[Jim Pick <jim jimpick com>]

Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
> 
> > I've just put gmedia up on my web site.
> > 
> > gmedia wants to be a general purpose media player for Gnome (audio, video).
> > It is currently just a frontend to the xmp module player, but I plan to add
> > support for mp3, wav and animations soon.
> > 
> > Go and have a look at http://space.tin.it/computer/ttarrant/
> > 
> > and tell me what you think.
> 
> Haven't looked at the app yet, but you might be re-inventing the wheel.
> Xanim [1] is I believe the most comprehensive general-purpose media player
> for X11, playing just about every sound/image/video format known to man
> (though it doesn't do specialised formats like mods and mids). Mark
> Podlipec, the guy who built it/maintains it, is a pretty open guy, he'll
> probably co-operate.

xanim is non free (it restricts commercial use).

Cheers,

 - Jim

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