Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_12.3 libdvdcss repository Repository with libdvdcss Encrypted DVD support http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.3/ libdvdcss2 Select this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. A simple library designed for accessing DVDs without having to bother about the decryption. Install this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. flash-player Macromedia Flash Plug-In This package contains Macromedia's Flash plug-in for the supported Web browsers. This includes Netcape6, Mozilla (all Gecko browsers), and Konqueror. Netscape 4 is not able to use Flash 6. ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon GStreamer Streaming-Media Framework Plug-Ins GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters that operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos and just about anything else media-related. Its plug-in-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins. This package contains well-written plug-ins that can't be shipped in openSUSE because of patent problems. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-orig-addon GStreamer Streaming-Media Framework Plug-Ins GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters that operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything media-related,from real-time sound processing to playing videos. Its plug-in-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra Complementary plugins for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good This package provides complementary plugins for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good. dvdauthor07 A set of low-level tools to help you author a DVD dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player. Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.2/ libdvdcss repository Repository with libdvdcss Encrypted DVD support http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.2/ libdvdcss2 Select this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. A simple library designed for accessing DVDs without having to bother about the decryption. Install this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. flash-player Macromedia Flash Plug-In This package contains Macromedia's Flash plug-in for the supported Web browsers. This includes Netcape6, Mozilla (all Gecko browsers), and Konqueror. Netscape 4 is not able to use Flash 6. ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon GStreamer Streaming-Media Framework Plug-Ins GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters that operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos and just about anything else media-related. Its plug-in-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins. This package contains well-written plug-ins that can't be shipped in openSUSE because of patent problems. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-orig-addon GStreamer Streaming-Media Framework Plug-Ins GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters that operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything media-related,from real-time sound processing to playing videos. Its plug-in-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra Complementary plugins for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good This package provides complementary plugins for gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good. dvdauthor07 A set of low-level tools to help you author a DVD dvdauthor is a program that will generate a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player. Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs, including: * Flash * Java * Encrypted DVD * Extra XINE Codecs, for DivX/Xvid etc. (libxine1) * Win 32 Codecs (w32codec-all) ...as well as have the option to install other additional software that might not be shipped with openSUSE. Click "Customise" on the next screen to get the option to select more software. For more information see http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats openSUSE-12.1-Oss Main openSUSE opensource package repository The largest and main repository from openSUSE for open source software http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss openSUSE-12.1-Update openSUSE updates repository Supported updates for openSUSE packags http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss Main repository of openSUSE (Non-Open Source Software) The main, official openSUSE repository for all the Non Open Source Software maintained by the openSUSE team. In here you can find Real Player, Opera, Java, Flash, and much more. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.1/ libdvdcss repository Repository with libdvdcss Encrypted DVD support http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/12.1/ libdvdcss2 Select this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. A simple library designed for accessing DVDs without having to bother about the decryption. Install this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. flash-player Macromedia Flash Plug-In This package contains Macromedia's Flash plug-in for the supported Web browsers. This includes Netcape6, Mozilla (all Gecko browsers), and Konqueror. Netscape 4 is not able to use Flash 6. libxine1-codecs This will allow you to play MP3s, DiVX, Quicktime, RealMedia etc. libxine is the beating heart of xine (a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems) which among others provides support for decoding (and playing back) of many today available audio/video codecs, like mpeg-4 (DivX), mpeg-2 (DVD, SVCD), mpeg-1 (VCD), Quicktime and RealMedia just to name a few. gmplayer GTK2 GUI Frontend for MPlayer The gmplayer package contains the GUI frontend for mplayer ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs, including: * Flash * Java * Encrypted DVD * Extra XINE Codecs, for DivX/Xvid etc. (libxine1) * Win 32 Codecs (w32codec-all) ...as well as have the option to install other additional software that might not be shipped with openSUSE. Click "Customise" on the next screen to get the option to select more software. For more information see http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats openSUSE-11.4-Oss Main openSUSE opensource package repository The largest and main repository from openSUSE for open source software http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss openSUSE-11.4-Update openSUSE updates repository Supported updates for openSUSE packags http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss Main repository of openSUSE 11.4 (Non-Open Source Software) The main, official openSUSE 11.3 repository for all the Non Open Source Software maintained by the openSUSE team. In here you can find Real Player, Opera, Java, Flash, and much more. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_11.4/ libdvdcss repository Repository with libdvdcss Encrypted DVD support http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/11.4/ libdvdcss2 Select this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. A simple library designed for accessing DVDs without having to bother about the decryption. Install this to be able to play Encrypted DVDs. flash-player Macromedia Flash Plug-In This package contains Macromedia's Flash plug-in for the supported Web browsers. This includes Netcape6, Mozilla (all Gecko browsers), and Konqueror. Netscape 4 is not able to use Flash 6. libxine1-codecs This will allow you to play MP3s, DiVX, Quicktime, RealMedia etc. libxine is the beating heart of xine (a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems) which among others provides support for decoding (and playing back) of many today available audio/video codecs, like mpeg-4 (DivX), mpeg-2 (DVD, SVCD), mpeg-1 (VCD), Quicktime and RealMedia just to name a few. MPlayer Multimedia Player MPlayer plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies. k3b-codecs Extra Multimedia Codecs for K3b This package extends the opensuse package with some codecs. K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more. gmplayer GTK2 GUI Frontend for MPlayer The gmplayer package contains the GUI frontend for mplayer smplayer Qt GUI Frontend for MPlayer SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume... ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. vlc The VideoLAN client, also a very good standalone video player. VideoLAN is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. phonon-backend-vlc Phonon multimedia framework that uses the VideoLAN client Phonon is a cross-platform portable Multimedia Support Abstraction, which allows you to play multiple audio or video formats with the same quality on all platforms, no matter which underlying architecture is used. This is the VLC (VideoLAN Client) backend for Phonon. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. w32codec-all Win 32 Codecs This packages contains the media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats, but it is normally not needed as mplayer and vlc support most formats without them. Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs, including: * Flash * Java * Encrypted DVD * Extra XINE Codecs, for DivX/Xvid etc. (libxine1) * Win 32 Codecs (w32codec-all) ...as well as have the option to install other additional software that might not be shipped with openSUSE. Click "Customise" on the next screen to get the option to select more software. For more information see http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats openSUSE-Factory-Oss Main openSUSE opensource package repository for Factory The largest and main repository from openSUSE for open source software http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ openSUSE-Factory-Non-Oss Main repository of openSUSE Factory (Non-Open Source Software) The main, official openSUSE repository for all the Non Open Source Software maintained by the openSUSE team. In here you can find Real Player, Opera, Java, Flash, and much more. http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Factory/ flash-player Macromedia Flash Plug-In This package contains Macromedia's Flash plug-in for the supported Web browsers. This includes Netcape6, Mozilla (all Gecko browsers), and Konqueror. Netscape 4 is not able to use Flash 6. libxine1-codecs This will allow you to play MP3s, DiVX, Quicktime, RealMedia etc. libxine is the beating heart of xine (a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems) which among others provides support for decoding (and playing back) of many today available audio/video codecs, like mpeg-4 (DivX), mpeg-2 (DVD, SVCD), mpeg-1 (VCD), Quicktime and RealMedia just to name a few. MPlayer Multimedia Player MPlayer plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies. k3b-codecs Extra Multimedia Codecs for K3b This package extends the opensuse package with some codecs. K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more. gmplayer GTK2 GUI Frontend for MPlayer The gmplayer package contains the GUI frontend for mplayer smplayer Qt GUI Frontend for MPlayer SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume... ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. vlc The VideoLAN client, also a very good standalone video player. VideoLAN is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. phonon-backend-vlc Phonon multimedia framework that uses the VideoLAN client Phonon is a cross-platform portable Multimedia Support Abstraction, which allows you to play multiple audio or video formats with the same quality on all platforms, no matter which underlying architecture is used. This is the VLC (VideoLAN Client) backend for Phonon. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. w32codec-all Win 32 Codecs This packages contains the media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats, but it is normally not needed as mplayer and vlc support most formats without them. Codecs for openSUSE GNOME Extra Multimedia Codecs and Proprietary Software for GNOME An easy way to install a selection of popular multimedia codecs, including: * Flash * Java * Encrypted DVD * Extra XINE Codecs, for DivX/Xvid etc. (libxine1) * Win 32 Codecs (w32codec-all) ...as well as have the option to install other additional software that might not be shipped with openSUSE. Click "Customise" on the next screen to get the option to select more software. For more information see http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats openSUSE-Tumbleweed Main opensource package repository for openSUSE Tumbleweed The rolling openSUSE distribution http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tumbleweed/standard/ Packman Repository Packman Software Repository Packman build software packages to enable users to easily install and remove software on Linux. More specifically, they do so for software that is not shipped as part of distributions or that are shipped as an outdated version. http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ libxine1-codecs This will allow you to play MP3s, DiVX, Quicktime, RealMedia etc. libxine is the beating heart of xine (a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems) which among others provides support for decoding (and playing back) of many today available audio/video codecs, like mpeg-4 (DivX), mpeg-2 (DVD, SVCD), mpeg-1 (VCD), Quicktime and RealMedia just to name a few. MPlayer Multimedia Player MPlayer plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies. k3b-codecs Extra Multimedia Codecs for K3b This package extends the opensuse package with some codecs. K3b is a CD burning application that supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3 audio files, DVD burning, CDDB, and much more. gmplayer GTK2 GUI Frontend for MPlayer The gmplayer package contains the GUI frontend for mplayer smplayer Qt GUI Frontend for MPlayer SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume... ffmpeg Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder Hyper fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder. vlc The VideoLAN client, also a very good standalone video player. VideoLAN is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. lame LAME adds support for encoding audio data into the MP3 format LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to use the open source model to improve the psycho acoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3. Another goal of the LAME project is to use these improvements for the basis of a patent free audio compression codec for the GNU project. phonon-backend-vlc Phonon multimedia framework that uses the VideoLAN client Phonon is a cross-platform portable Multimedia Support Abstraction, which allows you to play multiple audio or video formats with the same quality on all platforms, no matter which underlying architecture is used. This is the VLC (VideoLAN Client) backend for Phonon. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements using the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good GStreamer Good Plug-ins GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that are considered to have good quality code, correct functionality, and the preferred opensource licenses (LGPL for the plug-in code, LGPL or LGPL-compatible for the supporting library). gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad GStreamer Bad Plug-ins GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual wide use. gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems. w32codec-all Win 32 Codecs This packages contains the media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats, but it is normally not needed as mplayer and vlc support most formats without them.