xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:
Several security fixes have been made, such as forcrashes with variouscorrupted media files, as reported inCVE-2008-3231. An exploitable ID3heap buffer overflow has been fixed. Some checksfor memory allocationfailures have been added. A V4L segfault has beenresolved. AMR audioand Snow video are now recognized. Xvdeinterlacing image corruptionon some chipsets has been solved. Crashes with MP3files with metadataconsisting only of separators have been fixed. AnXv port and typeselection have been added. Content type detectionfor HTTP streams hasbeen improved. Several DVB and V4L improvementsand fixes have beenmade.