Gmerlin player

New in the 0.3.x series is the media tree, which lets you have not just one playlist but a whole tree of playlists (called albums). You can create albums and subalbums, move and copy tracks with drag & drop, even while the player plays. You can load new tracks via dialogs or simply by dropping files, media URLs (like "Tune in" buttons) or whatever from webbrowsers or filemanagers onto an album. You can also load an entire directory tree into an album. Subdirectories will become subalbums then.

There are some fixed albums, which represent plugins controlling hardware devices (e.g. CDROM drives). Each device plugin will automatically create the available devices as subalbums. You are able to play VCDs, Audio CDs and DVDs.

Furthermore, there is an Incoming album, which collects tracks from the commandline or from the remote, and a Favourites album, to which you can copy tracks from other albums. Right click onto the tree and the albums, and context sensitive menus will tell you your options.

Below, you see screenshots. Click the images to enlarge them.

Media tree in tabbed mode	Media tree in windowed mode	OSD and subtitle rendering in action.
Audio configuration	Audio Filters	Video configuration
Video filters	Text subtitle options	General configuration
OSD configuration	Logwindow configuration

Assorted features

• Playback of most commonly used media file formats (using the avdec plugin).
• Fullscreen mode (press TAB in the video window)
• Streaming via network at several different protocols (http, pnm, mms and "real rtsp") Gmerlin plays shoutcast, icecast (mp3, Vorbis and AAC) and many more streams. In most cases, you can drag "tune in" or "external player" links from your webbrowser into a gmerlin album.
• Support for URL redirectors (asx, ram, m3u, pls, smil)
• Antialiased time and track display
• Audio output via Alsa, esd or OSS, depending on what packages you installed. Alsa supports multichannel (5.1) output.
• Video playback using Ximages or or XVideo. Shared memory is used when available.
• If you load a file, which contains multiple tracks, gmerlin will allow you to access these individually. This is true for albw-wrapped mp3s and concatenated OggVorbis files.
• For albums, we remember the window coordinates as well as the last directory from which you added files. Coordinates of the video window and the main window are also remembered.
• The player can be controlled remotely by a commandline program. Type gmerlin_remote -help to see the options
• A simple script called gmerlin_launcher can be configured as a helper applications in webwrowsers and filemanagers.
• You can fire up the transcoder from the player