[dot] New Release of Kaffeine Media Player

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1080251927/

From: Giorgos Gousios <>
Dept: brain-stimulation
Date: Thursday 25/Mar/2004, @22:58

New Release of Kaffeine Media Player
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   The Kaffeine [http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/] development team,
lead by Juergen Kofler, is proud to present a new release (0.4.2) of
Kaffeine. Kaffeine is a xine-based [http://xinehq.de/] media player.
What sets it appart from other similar players is the fact that it tries
to be an all-around solution by exposing xine's capabilities on an easy
to use interface. Kaffeine supports all types of video and audio files
and also VCDs, DVDs and media URLs. Almost all supported multimedia
files can be played by point-and-click. In KDE 3.2, Kaffeine can also be
controlled by a remote control. It is lightweight, starts fast and
features a nice playlist.

     For the latest release the emphasis has been put on stability
rather than on the implementation of new features. Some very annoying
bugs where fixed, including some problems with control panel, various
crashes and some interoperability bugs with KDE 3.2. Despite the
emphasis on stability there are also some new features such as a new
setup dialog, better embedding in Konqueror and support for multiple
external subtitle files that can be changed on the fly while playing.
The new Konqueror embedding can be seen in action when visiting
http://www.apple.com/trailers [http://www.apple.com/trailers], the
"coffee bean" button starts playback in Kaffeine externally.

     Other new features include:

    * all meta/length information and CDDB entries are read on loading
    * navigation in DVD menus with arrow keys and enter
    * automatic resize feature: main window will be adapted to the video
      frame size
    * playlist statusbar shows total entries and total play time
    * file dialogs: remembers last directory; filter for all supported
      media formats
    * the --device switch sets DVD device too, path will no longer be
      saved in the xine configuration
    * parser for ram (real-time) playlists
    * possibility to turn equalizer on/off
    * support for audiocd:// URLs (audiocd kio-slave)
    * Konqueror servicemenus
    * translations available in 16 languages


     The development of Kaffeine started about a year ago, but Kaffeine
was mainly left into the unknown until major distributions (mainly SUSE
but also others) chose it as their default media player. Since then,
progress and addoption was very fast (  1st place in kde-apps.org
multimedia apps
[http://www.kde-apps.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0],  activity
monitor on sourceforge)
[http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=86937].
The current core development team is still very small
[http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/contact.html], but patches and bug
reports are coming from various users. If you want to help, please
report bugs to our  bug-tracker
[https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=581406&group_id=86937&func=browse]
or use our  mailing lists
[http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/contact.html]. If you want to compile
yourself you will be interested in the  Kaffeine source code
[https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86937&package_id=90404&release_id=226057].
Binary packages and ports will soon be available for all Linux
distributions as well as FreeBSD. Please check our download page
[http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/download.html] regularly.