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VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
VideoLAN and the VLC development team released the new major version of VLC, 2.2.2. With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.2.2 is a major upgrade for VLC. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs.
frostwire
FrostWire is a free, rich featured Bittorrent client, audio & video & download, with an integrated Media Player and Media Library. FrostWire is forked from open source community project LimeWire's back in 2005, its freelance developers located from all around the world. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market. FrostWire has evolved to replace LimeWire's BitTorrent core for that of Vuze, the Azureus BitTorrent Engine, and ultimately to remove the LimeWire's Gnutella core to become a 100% BitTorrent client that is simple to use. FrostWire allows any individual to share his/her content to millions of people right from his/her computer without any cost thanks to the BitTorrent P2P network.
Install Xnoise 0.2.18 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Linux Mint 15/14, Xnoise 0.2.15 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Mint 13 and Xnoise 0.2.12 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Mint 12 and other Ubuntu derivatives

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
But Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee or iTunes, xnoise uses a tracklist centric design. The tracklist is a list of video or music tracks that are played one by one without being removed. This gives you the possibility to enqueue any track in any order, regardless if they are on the same album or not. Tracks can be added and reordered at any time via drag and drop. A search function helps you find artists, albums, and titles in your local media collection.
Xnoise is always running in a single instance, so that music files that are associated with it, will always be added to the tracklist instead of starting a new instance. Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle!
xnoise media player

xnoise player

xnoise

xnoise media player
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!

What's new in this Release:
  • Don't ignore last song in random mode.
  • GUI updates
  • Allow compilation with valac 0.22
  • Changes for Settings dialog
  • AsyncQueues for background worker threads
  • Add media browser visibility option to app menu
  • Media browser rendering fixes for Adwaita
  • Fix rendering of background on Manjaro + Adwaita
  • Desktop file fixes
  • Localization fixes
  • update translations
  • bugs fixes

To install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Xnoise
Install Xnoise 0.2.18 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Linux Mint 14, Xnoise 0.2.15 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Mint 13 and Xnoise 0.2.12 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Mint 12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Improvements for 'various artists' albums
  • Make use of disk number tag
  • Change caching strategy for album art
  • New sort mode for music browser: ALBUM-ARTIST-TITLE
  • Change panel icon
  • Prevent backlight dimming in fullscreen mode
  • Use spin button for year tag editing in albums
  • Make insertion of imported tracks into music browser faster
  • Improve album art discovery
  • Work around memory leak
  • Require libtaginfo version 0.1.6
  • Changes for possible build with clang
  • Automatically expire notifications on xfce
  • Do not switch main view if device is plugged in
  • Separate handling of toolbars with 'Ambiance' / 'Radiance' theme
  • Add some possibility for runtime reference tracking
  • Translation updates
  • Various bug fixes
  • Cleanups

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Xnoise
Install SMPlayer 0.8.5 with YouTube and Mplayer support in Ubuntu 12.10/Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/9.10/9.04/All Linux Mint versions

SMPlayer is a complete media player for Windows and Linux. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine which is capable of playing most video and audio formats (avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg... see list). It uses its own codecs, so you don't need to install any codec packs.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
smplayer
List of Features:
  • Complete preferences dialog, where you can change the key shortcuts, colors and fonts of the subtitles, and many more.
  • Filters. Many video and audio filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
  • Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video. The mouse buttons can also be customized.
  • Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
  • Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
  • Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
  • Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
  • Possibility to search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org.
  • It can play Youtube videos. A Youtube browser is included, which allows to easily download Youtube videos too.
  • Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 30 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
  • Possibility to change the style and icon set of the interface.
  • Free and opensource. SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

Changelog of 0.8.5:
  • Due to changes in opensubtitles.org, smplayer couldn't find subtitles anymore. This has been fixed.
  • The interface with support for skins is now the default.
  • An option to enter url(s) in the playlist has been added.
  • The options to change the size of the main window work now even if the autoresize is set to never.
  • Two new options for Audio -> Stereo mode: Mono and Reverse.
  • The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" is now disabled by default because it has some issues that need to be addressed.
  • (Linux) The problem with mplayer2 and the -fontconfig option has been fixed (sort of).
  • New translation: Malay.
  • Some configuration options are changed to new defaults after installation to ease upgrade from old versions.
  • Some bugfixes.

To install SMPlayer in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Smplayer
Install VLC 2.0.6 Media Player in Ubuntu 13.04/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
vlc

vlc

Features:
  • Simple, fast and powerful media player.
  • Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
  • Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
    • MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
  • Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
  • Can do media conversion and streaming.
  • More info.
What's new in this release:
  • Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
  • Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
  • Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
  • Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
  • Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
  • Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
  • Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
  • Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
  • Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
  • Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
  • Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
  • 3rd party codecs updates
  • Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
  • Translation Updates: New Gujarati, Aragonese translations

To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: videolan
Install Xnoise 0.2.15 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 13/12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.
xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Handle 'Various artists' albums and compilations
  • Add CD Rom device type (preview listening, only)
  • Change button style in toolbar
  • Handle tray icon visibility via setting, only
  • Add sequencial loading for album art view for better user experience on large search results
  • Add commandline option for 'hidden window' mode
  • Translate and extend unity quicklist options
  • Add DockableMediaManager class (tradiaz)
  • Add combobox media selector (tradiaz)
  • Add animated showing/hiding of tree media selector
  • Add gstreamer-plugins-base to runtime dependencies
  • Allow editing of genre
  • Adjust volume on scroll on video screen/'now playing' pane
  • Add local fallback icons for xnoise
  • Use gnome's 'emblem-system-symbolic' for the application button (0rAX0)
  • More icon work
  • Update some translations
  • Many bug fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: Xnoise
Install VLC 2.0.5 Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/13.04 Raring/Linux Mint 14 and VLC 2.0.3 for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Linux Mint 13/12

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.
vlc

vlc

Features:
  • Simple, fast and powerful media player.
  • Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
  • Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
    • MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
  • Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 spyware, 0 ads and no user tracking.
  • Can do media conversion and streaming.
  • More info.
What's new in this release:
  • Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
  • Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
  • Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
  • Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
  • Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
  • Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
  • Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
  • Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
  • Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files
  • Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
  • Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
  • Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
  • Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts

To install VLC in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: videolan
Install Xnoise 0.2.9 lightweight Media Player in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 13/12

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application. Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.

xnoise
Features:
  • Fast searchable media library
  • Music and Video support
  • 'Smart playlists' for last played and most played tracks
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • State restore
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • Plugins for UbuntuOne Music Store, MPRIS, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, and so on.
  • And more!
What's new in this Release:
  • Redesign GUI for Settings-Dialog and for Add-Media-Dialog
  • use strip function on artist and album imports
  • Extend media import API
  • Extend item handler API
  • Add fix for window hiding/howing (Tal)
  • Update portugse translation (Sergio Marques)
  • Activate standard item handlers for dynamic playlists, too
  • Context menus for dynamic playlists
  • Add query interface for dynamic playlists
  • Fix keyboard opened menus for tracklist and musicbrowser
  • Use nautilus feature (if available) for file indication
  • Add FAQ entry to help menu
  • Magnatune: add support for ‘speechless’ streaming with user login
  • Magnatune: album downloads for registered users
  • Magnatune: add online change monitoring
  • Magnatune: use album images in Magnatune plugin
  • Magnatune: use genre in search/filtering
  • Magnatune: change store location of db
  • Update packaging data
  • Replace hard coded keycodes with the (now available) Gdk.Key.* constants
  • Recommend tumbler thumbnailing in packaging
  • Update debian package creation script (Tal)
  • Code cleanups
  • Various bug fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

For other distro's check out site of Xnoise.
Enjoy
Install BeatBox Player in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 13

BeatBox is a Audio player for the linux operating system that is fast, simple, and beautiful. BeatBox is an easy to use, stable, fast and good looking music library organizer written in vala.
Features include:
  • Sound Menu support
  • Two Views – Album art and ‘list’
  • CD Playback
  • iPod Syncing
  • Auto-fetching of missing album art
  • Album art renderer in ‘List View’
  • Scrobble support
  • Equaliser

Release Notes 0.6, Some of the new noticeable features are:
  • Shuffle is no longer visual.
  • New top display UI.
  • Closing while playing hides the window, and a new exit app menu option allows you to force close the app.
  • Can now be set as default music player
  • Faster startup time
  • Option to eject devices from sidebar
  • Nicer album view popup
  • Sidebar inline toolbar

To install BeatBox in Ubuntu 12.04/Mint 13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To add BeatBox in sound menu do following, Enter following command to install dconf-tools:

Go to Dash open "Dconf-Editor" and see the following picture
beatbox
Install Xnoise 0.2.2 lightweight Media Player for Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application.

xnoise

Features:
  • MPRIS v1/v2 DBus interfaces
  • Notifications
  • Window title setting
  • Video support
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • Fast library (metadata) search
  • State restore
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Lyrics fetching
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Plugin Support
  • Ubuntu Ayatana Soundmenu
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • And more!

To Install Xnoise Media Player on Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
For other distro's check out site of Xnoise.
Enjoy
Previous Shared Important Tweaks to do after install of Ubuntu 12.04
ubuntu tweaks

1: Enable Dodge Windows in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
Dodge Windows option is not available in Ubuntu 12.04, Only you can autohide launcher.
Here is easy tweak for dodge windows or dodge active windows.

dodge windows

To Enable Dodge Windows in Ubuntu 12.04 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To revert changes back enter following commands:


2: Save Screen Brightness of Laptop in Ubuntu
Ubuntu doesn't save screen brightness due to hardware compatibility, At every login you have to change brightness. So here is tweak to save screen brightness in Ubuntu.

To Save Screen Brightness in Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Add this before the last line "exit 0":
echo 4 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
ubuntu screen brightness


3: Add other Media Player to Ubuntu Sound Menu
To Add BeatBox in sound menu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Go to Dash and open "Dconf-Editor"

Type your Interested Player in (interested-media-player) and you can remove any media player by writing name in (blacklisted-media-players). See following picture
beatbox


4: Enable Global Menu for LibreOffice in Ubuntu 12.04
By default LibreOffice doesn't support global menu, So you can enable Global Menu easily.

To enable Global Menu for LibreOffice open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

libreoffice


5: Open as Administrator in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin
If you want to open files and folders "Open as Administrator". You can do easily.
To add "Open as Aministrator" entry open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To install Open-as-Administrator in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

ubuntu root
After that Restart Ubuntu.

That's it
Install Xnoise 0.2.0 lightweight Media Player for Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint

Xnoise, a lightweight music player with minimal interface has been updated bringing in many new features and fixes. Xnoise is written in Vala and supports video playback making it one stop media application.

xnoise

Features:
  • MPRIS v1/v2 DBus interfaces
  • Notifications
  • Window title setting
  • Video support
  • Automatic album art fetching
  • 'Now playing' pane
  • Fast library (metadata) search
  • State restore
  • ID3 tag editing
  • Lyrics fetching
  • Can play any GStreamer media
  • Plugin Support
  • Last.fm integration
  • Ubuntu Ayatana Soundmenu
  • Media key support
  • Lightweight and speedy
  • And more!

Changes in this Release:
  • added keybinding for increasing/decreasing playback volume
  • options to show track in file manager or trash it
  • new azlyrics plugin
  • refreshed Xnoise layout
  • merge cyclic-save-state plugin into Xnoise
  • support for dockable media sources (Categories: Playlists, Media Collection, Stores)
  • automatic thumbnail generation for videos
  • onboard dbus service (not bound to mpris)
  • redone application button for compact layout
  • added possibility to name streams on import
  • suport for tag embedded images
  • optimizations and bug fixes

To Install Xnoise Media Player on Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
For other distro's check out site of Xnoise.
Enjoy
Install Banshee 2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal/Linux Mint

Banshee music player

Banshee 2.4 is the culmination of six months' work by 35 developers, 38 translators and dozens of bug reporters and testers. It is a stable release, the successor to Banshee 2.0.
Play your audios and videos. Keep up with your podcasts and Internet radio. Discover new music and podcasts. Keep your portable device loaded with good stuff.

To install/upgrade open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Here is the Homepage of Banshee.
Install VLC 1.3 nigthly on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin/Linux Mint

Although VLC media player 1.2 final hasn't been yet released, the VLC developers have already started to work on VLC 1.3, and, it seems that the UI is one point that is carefully approached and progressively enriched.
VLC 1.3 nightly build comes with numerous changes under the hood, as well as improved Bluray support (libbluray has been updated also).
In term of visual changes, the control bar's size has been increased and can be used in normal mode or full-screen mode.
When a clip is played in full-screen mode, a new icon appears on the fullscreen controller that can stretch the controller to the bot sides of the screen.

To install open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:





That's it