OvoPlayer A free, multiplatform music player
 

Audio Engines


OvoPlayer needs a multimedia engine to play your media files. Windows and all the most common Linux distro already have one installed. This is the list of the currently supported engines with some infos and downloads links.

Engines

This is the list of all currently supported engines

This is the list of the currently supported engines. Follow the link for more information, download links and install instructions.

Engine Windows Linux Notes
VLC ✔ ✔ Preferred choice
MPlayer ✔ ✔ play almost any format, tested on Linux and Windows
XINE U ✔ almost complete (some performance issues), tested on Linux
BASS ✔ ✔ complete, tested on Windows
GStreamer U ✔ complete, versions 0.1 and 1.0 tested on Linux
DirectShow ✔ N complete, Windows only (may need codec installation)
MediaFoundation ✔ N complete, Windows only (may need codec installation)
LibMPV ✔ ✔ play almost any format, tested on Linux and Windows
FFMPEG ✔ ✔ Dropped support
  • [U] : Untested, it may be working
  • [N] : Not available on this platform

VLC

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. In my opinion this application is a must-have in any platform. top

Mplayer

Mplayer is a free and open source command line media player with support for almost any known file format and any platforms. top

XINE

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. Is included in a lot of Linux distribution and is avalaible also for Windows. top

BASS

BASS is an audio library for use in software on several platforms. Its purpose is to provide developers with powerful and efficient sample, stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via OS codecs and add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs). BASS is free for non-commercial use and is avalaible under Windows and Linux.
To play all the file formats supported by OvoPlayer you need at least the base BASS.dll and the following addons: BASSWMA, BASSFLAC and BASS_APE top

GStreamer

GStreamer is a complete multimedia framework for audio and video, released under LGPL. With it's modular and plugins based architecture, it is capable of playing a lot of formats. A lot of modern Linux media players use this engine, so maybe it is already installed by your distro. top

libMPV

MPV it's a new Mplayer/Mplayer2 fork. top