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| developer | Kaffeine team |
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2.0.18 ( May 14, 2019 ) |
| operating system | Linux and other Unix-like operating systems |
| programming language | C ++ |
| category | Media player |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
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Kaffeine (not: Caffeine ) is a free media player for Linux . The program was published under the GNU General Public License and can therefore be used and distributed free of charge. It uses the possibilities of the KDE user interface and therefore fits completely into this user environment with its operating concept and the so-called " look and feel ".
functionality
Kaffeine is a pure front end . This means that it does not have its own program functions for playing the video and music data. In the beginning, Kaffeine used the xine -lib or GStreamer instead . In the meantime, however, the program relies exclusively on libvlc .
Functions
Media types
Since the ability to play certain types of media does not depend on Kaffeine itself, this list goes back to the capabilities of libvlc, with the help of which Kaffeine can play the following types of media, among others:
- Audio CD / DVD video playback
- VCD / SVCD playback
- MP3 / Ogg - Vorbis
- DVB ( digital television )
- MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG-4
- DivX / Xvid / QuickTime / RealMedia / Windows Media Audio and Video / Ogg Theora
- Matroska container
KDE integration
The additional features of Kaffeine are mainly limited to the integration in KDE:
- Full drag and drop support
- Parts list ( playlist )
- Local storage of a stream
- Subtitle support
- Dealing with DVD menus
- Network transmission ( broadcasting )
- Support for remote controls with LIRC
- bookmark
- Export of video excerpts as an image (snapshot / screenshot )
- Prevention of the screen saver
- Display of the current title in the on-screen display (OSD)
- Konqueror plug-in / Mozilla plug-in
- Equalizer
- Icon in the system bar ( Taskbar Notification Area )
- Full screen mode
- Minimal mode (hiding the GUI elements)
- Lots of translations
history
Kaffeine was and is developed by Jürgen Kofler and under the terms of open source - license GNU General Public License published (GPL). The program name is a play on words typical of KDE applications (an additional, or rather a “C” replacing, “K” in the name) with Caffeine , the English word for caffeine . Originally, instead of xine, GStreamer could also be used as a backend, but this option was removed from Kaffeine.
- June 23, 2003 Kaffeine 0.3.1 - First public version
- July 2nd, 2003 Kaffeine 0.3.2
- August 14, 2003 Kaffeine in Gentoo
- November 16, 2003 Kaffeine 0.4.0
- January 17th, 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 2nd, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8.1
- September 8, 2006 Kaffeine 0.8.2
- November 26th, 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 6th, 2008 Kaffeine 0.8.7
- May 23, 2009 Kaffeine 0.8.8 (last KDE3 version)
- May 31, 2010 Kaffeine 1.0
- September 1st, 2010 Kaffeine 1.1
- April 4, 2011 Kaffeine 1.2
- August 7th, 2015 Kaffeine 1.3
- May 29, 2016 Kaffeine 2.0 (ported to Qt5)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release 2.0.18 . May 14, 2019 (accessed August 4, 2019).
- ↑ The kaffeine Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed on July 18, 2018).