gst123

The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your music files.

Since gst123-0.1.0 support for watching videos has been added; however gst123 should run fine in situations where no X11 display is available; videos can be played without X11 display, too (-x, --novideo); in this case, only the audio stream will be played.

It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2

Getting gst123

The current version of gst123 is gst123-0.3.4, and can be downloaded here:

• gst123-0.3.4.tar.bz2

The git repository can be cloned like this:

git clone http://space.twc.de/public/git/gst123.git

and browsed via gitweb

Overview of Changes in gst123-0.3.4

• Option parsing bug for "-@, --list" fixed.
• Avoid annoying redundant tag updates.
• Support video subtitles [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy].
• Use A/a keys to set video opacity [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy].
• Work around kwin window manager policy "focus stealing prevention".
• Fix image filetype detection bug.
• Fix Issue 14: Use sync bus handler to set window xid.
• Fix Issue 13: In some cases playing videos leads to g_criticals().
• Added "-f, --fullscreen" option to start playback in fullscreen mode.
• Added "--volume" option to set initial playback volume.
• Ignore symlinks when crawling directories.
• Various bugfixes.

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Documentation (gst123-0.3.4)

• the gst123-0.3.4 man page

Issue tracker

If you have issues/bugs related to gst123, you can use the issue tracker at google code.

Discussion group

There is a group on google groups you can join to discuss questions related to using gst123 and development topics.

Famous Software Award & Interview

Gst123 has received an award and is "famous software".
There is also an interview about gst123 available on this site.

Screenshot

Here is a screenshot of gst123-0.3.1 using the recently added visualization support (-v commandline option):

Building gst123 on Ubuntu

The following packages are required (and need to be installed with apt-get install before building):

• build-essential
• libgtk2.0-dev
• libncurses-dev

If you're building against gstreamer 0.10, you also need:

• libgstreamer0.10-dev
• libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev

If you're building against gstreamer 1.0, you also need:

• libgstreamer1.0-dev
• libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

Older versions

Older versions are

• gst123-0.3.3.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.3.2.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.3.1.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.3.0.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.2.2.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.2.1.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.2.0.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.1.4.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.1.3.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.1.2.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.1.1.tar.bz2 (old version)
• gst123-0.1.0.tar.gz (old version)
• gst123-0.0.1.tar.gz (old version)
• gst123-0.0.2.tar.gz (old version)
• gst123-0.0.3.tar.gz (old version)