TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: imagemagick
https://imagemagick.org/script/index.php
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images.
It’s pretty fucking magickal.
TODO – I didn’t note the actual commands I use
https://sourceforge.net/projects/libxosd/
https://ignavus.net/xosd
Transparent X on-screen display.
It’s fairly insane. It’s way too unix-like to be usable by mere mortals. You’d think that you could run ‘xosd’ to run the program, but you’re wrong. It’s actually osd_cat ..
Comes with an XMMS plugin.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://mplayerhq.hu/
Pretty much the de-facto video player on Linux, as it comes with most Linux distributions. It can play both audio and video, and works at the commandline.
Although it’s great, it’s a last resort compared to other audio playing software.
Although it can play without one, the common frontends are:
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: vlc
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The king of video players.
On Windows, this is especially-king because the user doesn’t have to figure out and download various shady codecs.
Can play various Oldschool music formats.
cacko.biz/kino2/
https://my-zaurus.narod.ru/kino.html
A media player using a MPlayer backend.
 Yeah this is a shit image, but I’m too lazy to capture my own.
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Software >
https://sourceforge.net/p/xine/xine-lib/ci/default/tree/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/
A multimedia player.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://amarok.kde.org/
summary
opinion
Was called amaroK (ending capital letter)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200511163612/https://legacy.xmms2.org/
An audio player.
A really fucking inexcusably-ugly audio player. Thankfully abandoned.
Note that xmms.org is not their website! See What ever happened to XMMS.ORG?
bmp was meant to be a GTK port, but it was ultimately abandoned.
