gst123

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 gst123-0.1.2, and can be downloaded here: The git repository can be cloned like this:

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

and browsed via gitweb

Documentation (gst123-0.1.2)

Issue tracker

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

Famous Software Award & Interview

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

Older versions

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