Banshee Media Player as we know it is the default media player for Ubuntu 11.04. A new version of Banshee is out now. Banshee 2.2 is the culmination of six months’ work by 35 developers, 38 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release, the successor to Banshee 2.0. It will be available in updates or via official PPA i.e ppa:banshee-team/ppa soon enough.
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Banshee 2.2.0 Released
22
Sep
VLC 1.1.8 Released for Ubuntu 10.10
25
Mar
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. The latest package of VLC just got released is VLC 1.1.8 which is available for Ubuntu via PPA. Not only VLC but the Official VLC website also got an awesome new design.
Installation
Open the terminal and type the following commands in sequence :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-pulse
and done.
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Banshee 1.9.4 for Ubuntu
24
Feb
Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance. It has been built upon Mono and Gtk#, & it uses the Helix & GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 ,FLAC etc. Banshee also supports many portable media players, including Apple’s iPod, Android devices and Creative’s ZEN players.
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Ubuntu Media Center
15
Mar
The term Media Center may be defined either as a dedicated computer appliance or a specialized application software designed to run on standard personal computer hardware which then becomes a so called “HTPC” (“Home Theater PC”, also sometimes referred to as a “Media PC”), both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media (music, movies,photos etc.), and it usually has a GUI (Graphical User Interface) . A Media Center typically allows watching movies (DVD, BluRay, and other digital video formats) and watching and recording television broadcasts, playing audio (CD as well as MP3,WMA, and other audio formats) & watching pictures and making galleries to manage them properly.
For Ubuntu , we have three awesome Media Centers lined up namely – XBMC, Enna Media Center and MOOVIDA .
1) XBMC :- XBMC Media Center (formerly named Xbox Media Center) is an award winning free and open source cross-platform media player and home entertainment software . XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox. Created in 2003 , XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers from different parts of the world. XBMC is available in more than 30 languages. Isn’t it great ! Its graphical user interface allows the user to easily manage video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disk, local network, and the internet using a remote control/mouse.
It is a popular alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Media Center and Apple’s Front Row, & has a skinnable and user-configurable interface and plugin support.
