Kaffeine

Kaffeine (not Caffeine ) is a free multimedia player that is a program for playing music and video files on your computer with the Linux operating system. The program has been released under the GNU General Public License and may thus be used and distributed free of charge. It uses the possibilities of the KDE user interface and therefore fits with its operating concept and the so-called "look and feel " in this user environment completely.

Operation

Kaffeine is a pure frontend. This means that it brings no separate program functions for playing video and music data. Instead, it draws on the xine- lib, but can also use GStreamer. It can also fall back to play some proprietary formats on the codec pack from the MPlayer project.

Pros and Cons

As an advantage over xine Kaffeine offers full integration into KDE and so options such as drag and drop between KDE programs, access to the KDE 's own input and output modules and a KDE -like programming environment. Added to this is a special feature of Konqueror plugin and the easy way to save network streams. Also Kaffeine can even spread or receive network streams.

But Kaffeine is always dependent on the development of xine, which is considered by many as a disadvantage.

Functions

Media types

Since the ability to play certain types of media, does not depend on Kaffeine itself, this list goes back to the skills of xine, which helps Kaffeine can play include the following media types:

  • Audio-CD/DVD-Video Play
  • VCD / SVCD playback
  • MP3/Ogg-Vorbis
  • DVB ( Digital TV)
  • MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4
  • DivX / Xvid / QuickTime / Real Media / Windows Media Audio and Video / Ogg Theora
  • Matroska container

KDE integration

The additional features of Kaffeine, are largely limited to the integration in KDE:

  • Full support for drag and drop
  • BOM ( playlist )
  • Local storage of a stream
  • Subtitle support
  • Handling of DVD menus
  • Network Transmission ( Broadcasting)
  • Remote control support with LIRC
  • Bookmark
  • Export of video clips as an image (snapshot / screenshot )
  • Preventing the screen saver
  • Display the current track in the On Screen Display ( OSD)
  • Konqueror-Plugin/Mozilla-Plugin
  • Equalizer
  • Icon in the System Tray ( Taskbar Notification Area )
  • Full screen mode
  • Minimal mode ( hide the GUI elements )
  • Many translations

History

Kaffeine has been and is being developed by Jürgen Kofler and released under the terms of the open source GNU General Public License ( GPL). The program name is a typical KDE applications pun ( an additional, or a "C" replace, "K" in the name) with Caffeine, the English word for caffeine. Originally could either take xine and GStreamer be used as a backend, this possibility was, however, removed from Kaffeine.

  • June 23, 2003 Kaffeine 0.3.1 - First public release
  • July 2, 2003 Kaffeine 0.3.2
  • August 14, 2003 Kaffeine in Gentoo
  • November 16, 2003 Kaffeine 0.4.0
  • January 17, 2004 Kaffeine 0.4.1
  • March 24, 2004 Kaffeine 0.4.2
  • April 19, 2004 Kaffeine enters the Debian / unstable branch
  • May 3, 2004 Kaffeine 0.4.3
  • May 13, 2004 Kaffeine 0.4.3b
  • October 3, 2004 Kaffeine 0.5rc1 ( version 0.5 represents a far-reaching restructuring of Kaffeine )
  • November 5, 2004 Kaffeine 0.5rc2
  • December 23, 2004 Kaffeine 0.5
  • March 20, 2005 Kaffeine 0.6 - DVB- extension
  • August 7, 2005 Kaffeine 0.7
  • March 25, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8
  • April 2, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8.1
  • September 8, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8.2
  • November 26, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8.3
  • April 13, 2007 Kaffeine 0.8.4
  • July 28, 2007 Kaffeine 0.8.5
  • January 20, 2008 Kaffeine 0.8.6
  • July 6, 2008 Kaffeine 0.8.7
  • May 23, 2009 Kaffeine 0.8.8 ( probably the last KDE3 version)
  • May 31, 2010 Kaffeine 1.0
  • September 1, 2010 Kaffeine 1.1
  • April 4, 2011 Kaffeine 1.2
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