Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the
Mutagen tagging library. It's designed around the idea that you know
how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists
based on regular expressions (don't worry, regular searches work too).
It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it
lets you do this for all the file formats it supports -- Ogg Vorbis,
FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.
XMMS --- X Multimedia System. XMMS is a multimedia player based on the look of
Winamp. Currently it plays mpeg layer 1/2/3, wav, au, CD audio, etc.
BB is an high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text
terminal. It is portable demo, so you can run it on plenty of operating
systems and DOS.
Supports: DOS (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console
Sound: OSS, Sun audio, SGI, DEC Aplha, AIX, HP-UX, DOS (GUS CLASSIC, GUS
CLASSIC, GUS MAX, GUS ACE, GUS PNP, SB, ESS, PC-buzzer
Libav provides cross-platform tools and libraries to convert, manipulate
and stream a wide range of multimedia formats and protocols. It originates
from the FFmpeg codebase, but goes its own way these days, providing its
users with reliable releases and a clear vision how to go forward.
This is a library based on an XML file format that is used to share
and reuse content like image and audio file.
Application using this library can query files on their system that
provides an assetml xml file description.
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and
tag data for video and audio files.
Read http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Support/Formats for supported formats.
[ excerpt (with adaptations) from developer's README ]
ffmpeg is a hyper fast realtime audio/video encoder, a streaming
server and a generic audio and video file converter.
It can convert a standard video source into several file formats
based on DCT/motion compensation encoding. Sound is compressed in
MPEG audio layer 2 or using an AC3 compatible stream.
What makes ffmpeg interesting ?
- Simple and efficient video encoder: outputs MPEG1, H263, Real
Video(tm), MPEG4, DIVX and MJPEG compatible bitstreams using the
same encoder core.
- Hyper fast MPEG audio layer 2 compression (50 times faster than
realtime on a K6 500).
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ffmpeg is made of two programs:
* ffmpeg: soft VCR which encodes in real time to several formats.
It can also encode from any supported input file format to any
input supported format.
* ffserver: high performance live broadcast streaming server based
on the ffmpeg core encoders.
This CDDA reader distribution reads audio from the
CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the
data to a file or pipe as .wav, .aifc or as raw 16 bit linear PCM.