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How to install Xine media player on linuxmint-18.03

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To install Xine media player on linuxmint-18.03
Xine is a free and opensource 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.


Installation

Update your system repository using by apt-get command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                              
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                       
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                    
Hit:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] 
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 323 kB in 1s (226 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done

Now, install the Xine media player application

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install xine-ui -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:
xine-ui
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 353 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,270 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,886 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package xine-ui.
(Reading database ... 222357 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xine-ui_0.99.9-1.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xine-ui (0.99.9-1.2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up xine-ui (0.99.9-1.2) ...
Updated the MIME types in xine' s menu file

Once Installation is done you can access the application from the Menu as shown here
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Xine media player application is shown.
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With this, the method to install Xine media player on linuxmint-18.03 comes to an end.

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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

What is the xine engine?

A

The xine engine is a free media player engine. It comes in the form of a shared libarary and is typically used by media player frontends and other multimedia applications for playback of mult

Q

How do I pronounce "xine"?

A

As long as people know what you are talking about, you are free to pronounce it the way you like, but the official pronounciation is [ksi:n], like the name "Maxine" with the "Ma" removed.

Q

Don't you use CVS?

A

We used to, but there are some significant problems with CVS. Merging is easier with Mercurial (and, for that matter, git); and we can commit changes locally, change them if mistakes have bee

Q

How can I watch files with external AVI subtitles?

A

In xine 0.9.13 this used to be: xine foo.avi%bar.sub Latest xine-lib modules (1-beta3 or newer) support external subtitles for any media file, not only AVI. In order to use it you can pas

Q

How to making your own RPM packages (xine-lib, xine-ui, gxine)?

A

Basically you will only have to issue one command, if you have just downloaded a source tarball from our web site:

rpmbuild -ta

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