Xine

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Xine v10.99.5

xine is a outdated stand-alone media-player and multimeida library (xine-lib) which used to the back-end for numerous GNU/Linux media players. It was also used for things like video file preview in KDE file dialog boxes. Xine has not been updated since 2007.

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discontinued: Xine | GMPlayer | MPlayer