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| GeeXboX |
Category: Multimedia Players - 126 downloads
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Description
The GeeXboX is no more than an awesome standalone media player. Why such a name? Well, its main purpose is to play DivX movies and, as everybody usually call this kind of projects DivX boxes, well just prepended a GeeX, cause thats for the geeks you all are ;-)
So, GeeXboX is a full operating system, running under Linux and based on the excellent MPlayer. No need of hard drive, you just have to put the GeeXboX bootable CD into the CD-Drive of any pentium-class computer to boot it. Moreover, GeeXboX is a free software, created thanks to many open-source software. This means that everyone can modify it and build his own release of the GeeXboX.
You may wonder why you could have to boot on another operating system to play your media files, but just think about the Mini-ITX plateforms like VIA Epia/Eden or Shuttle barebones. Its now affordable to bring DivX to your home cinema, pluging this kind of computers directly to your TV !!
At the time of the first developpement releases (Dec. 2002), it was only able to play DivX movies, but for now, nearly every kind of media files can be played from GeeXboX, our OS supporting for example :
* MPEG 1/2 movies (MPG files, VCDs, DVDs ...)
* MPEG 4 movies (DivX, XviD ...)
* RealMedia and Windows Media movies.
* OggMedia streams
* Audio streams like : MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV (AudioCD), AC3 ...
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