News

A new version of xine-lib is available. This is mainly bug fixes, but there are one or two new features, notably support for the WebM container format.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

#xine-vdpau (freenode) is no more. Use #xine (alternatively, on OFTC) instead.

It has been determined that, while it was the more active channel, a lot of its content was general xine-related chat, which is more on-topic in #xine, so we've decided that VDPAU no longer needs a separate channel. If you have a problem with this, send your comments to /dev/null ☺.

A new version of xine-lib is available. This is a bug-fix release; there were a few ‘minor’ breakages in 1.1.18.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

Well, this one's long overdue.

This release contains many fixes and tweaks, many of which you've probably already benefitted from anyway since we'd previously been advising anybody who had problems to use the development version (if they weren't already).

Yes, there may still be problems; any help which anybody can offer in fixing these would be good. We like patches. Patches are good.

Anyway, download, build and enjoy…

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

A new version of xine-lib is available. This release adds support for WMA Pro and basic support for Quicktime media links (much better support is present in the 1.2 branch) and has various fixes for 24-bit FLAC and LPCM, TTA, and AAC in Flash video; there's also one important fix for DXR3 users, allowing xine-lib to work with recent versions of the em8300 driver. It also has enhanced support for metadata (currently Ogg-only).

Building with internal ffmpeg works again. This is a deprecated option; we strongly recommend against using this for reasons of codec and security support. Don't use it; use external ffmpeg libraries instead.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

VDPAU support is now included in our xine-lib 1.2 repository. (xine-lib-1.2-vdpau now points to this.)

A new version of gxine is available. This release is mostly a maintenance release, but there are a few notable improvements: you can now double-click on the video to switch to full-screen mode, and a different pointer shape is used when over a SPU button (e.g. a DVD menu item). Oh, and hoppy you near, or something.

Download it from our download page.

We're now using hg for xine-ui. This move has been (quietly) planned for some time; since xine-ui CVS hasn't seen any changes since February (apart from one build fix), the decision has been made, using One Man, One Vote, to implement this.

A new version of xine-lib is available. This release has improved Matroska support, various fixes for UTF-16 (typically affecting ID3 tags), a hack for Apple film trailers (qthttp://...), improved support for unencrypted files on BluRay discs, and better OpenBSD support (sndio).

Download it from our download page.

bugs.xine-project.org is up and running again. The cause was a security rule which should have been disabled…

For those of you who regularly taint your kernels, VDPAU support has been merged into xine-lib. It's still a bit experimental, so it's in a new (and temporary) 1.2 tree; it'll go into the main 1.2 tree in due course.

We've also got some basic BluRay support going into the next release. It won't play discs as yet (and that probably won't land in 1.1), but it should be able to handle decrypted files.

bugs.xine-project.org is currently not functioning correctly. The symptoms are known (mostly, use ‘;’ instead of ‘&’ in query URLs, else you'll see “403 Permission denied”). It'll be fixed when it's fixed, whenever that will be…

A new version of xine-lib is available. This release is, like the gxine release on Wednesday, mostly a maintenance release. It fixes a few security bugs, contains miscellaneous other bug fixes and adds support for OpenBSD.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

A new version of gxine is available. This release is mostly a maintenance release.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

We've gone live with the new site! It's still a little bit unfinished, but most things are in place and working well.

A few things are different. This is a reimplementation of the site, done using XML and in a static form, rather than in PHP: no regeneration each time a page is served, so it's more cache-friendly; and fewer electrons are used. Remember, every electron saved…

There'll probably be some changes to the site over the coming months, in terms of style and possibly also layout. No promises, though :-)

xine's old website, http://xinehq.de, is unreachable and has been so for over a week now. This website is intended to replace it and is presently under construction. Please bear with us.

File releases and source repositories are available at SourceForge.net and Alioth. You may reach us on IRC on #xine on irc.oftc.net, or on our mailing lists.

A new xine-lib version is now available, once again more quickly than we'd like… this release contains another security fix and more bug & build fixes.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

A new xine-lib version is now available, rather more quickly than we'd like… this release contains bug & build fixes (build with older ffmpeg & with libcaca; MPEG4 playback) and a few FAQ list updates (Real codecs & Xv).

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains some more security fixes, a few compilation fixes for C++ front ends and for when using recent ffmpeg snapshots, a few Flash video and MMS fixes, and other miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

A new xine-lib version is now available. This release contains some security fixes, notably a DoS via corrupted Ogg files (CVE-2008-3231), some related fixes, and fixes for a few possible buffer overflows. The other changes include recognition of AMR audio and Snow video.

Please check the release notes for details & known problems.

Download it from our download page.

We currently have no news older than the item above. We'll add them as soon as we can…