Download gxine 0.5.5

The gxine program is the GTK front end for xine, an open source multimedia player for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Irix, and Mac OS X. The program can play CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, as well as play avi, mov, wmv, and mp3 files and also multimedia streams from the internet are no problem at all. Version 0.5.5 has been released by the developers with the following changes:

Look, shiny stuff! New features include automatic handling of separate subtitles files, DVD title/chapter display, and improved playlist item management and creation. There are some small but potentially useful Javascript additions too, and quite a few small tweaks and fixes.

changes:

• Improve handling of negative times.
• Fix a compile error which occurs when the DPMS extn isn’t available. (bug 1414087)
• Fix a stupid quoting error in the build-time JS include/lib detection (which broke manual libsmjs detection). (bug 1422935)
• Rearranged the JS detection to avoid picking up libmozjs instead of libjs/libsmjs. (Partial fix for bug 1414260)
• Detect libmozjs via xulrunner-sh.pc. INSTALL is updated accordingly.
• Added automatic subtitle file handling for ‘file:’ MRLs, and a corresponding configuration option. (bug 1368823)
• Added 75% and 150% to window size menus.
• Added –command “Javascript” option.
• Added JS object ‘event’, currently with one property, ‘stream_end’, which contains a Javascript string which is executed when the end of the stream is reached.
• Added DVD title & chapter info to the time widget.
• Added an indicator to show when the JS console has new content.
• Shade the “play” button if the playlist is empty.
• Improved ‘live stream’ detection (there were some false positives).
• Reset the seeker bar when the stream is stopped or ended.
• Stop the current stream before exiting.
• Tidied up some console-based JS error reporting.
• No longer remove MRLs from the playlist when they cause more MRLs to be added. Instead, mark the added MRLs with a “play” icon.
• Removed a few small XML-related memory leaks.
• Reworked internal JS engine lock usage and some signal handlers which execute JS functions. (We now use recursive mutexes.)
• Fixed a race between concurrent video widget resize sequences which was sometimes causing the window to have the wrong size. Or at least made this much more unlikely…
• Fixed a race which occasionally caused gxine to hang during startup.
• Restored saving of the values ​​(other than the volume level) in the settings window. This also unbreaks xine_cfg_set(), which was only working for string values.
• Added a ./configure option to disable built-in playlist parsing.
• Stopped the “open” button in the playlist window from allowing huge files to be loaded. (Partially fixes Ubuntu bug 33493)
• Added another “open” button to the playlist window’s button bar, replacing the “new” button (which now opens the playlist item editing window directly). (Rest of Ubuntu bug 33493)
• Added a “File…” button to the playlist/mediamark item editing window, like the one in the “open MRL” window.
• Tweaked the behavior of the aforementioned “File…” buttons to preserve “#…” if the content of the corresponding input field is not obviously a plain file name.
• Make the setup wizards window modal unless invoked by the user.
• Minor display tweaks: quotation marks, ‘XxY’ => ‘X×Y’ etc.
• Fixed gxine.desktop so that it passes validation. (Ubuntu bug 33579)

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