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Thinking about using Xine, beside other players like VLC and the mplayer-based ones, I became interested in this and tried to understand this kind of terminology (player, frontend, gui, engine, etc), as they are used for example in the Xine-ui help:

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For example, a question might be "is Totem a GUI/frontend of Gstreamer?"; but I do not want necessarily an answer to a such question here: but in order to create separate questions like "what video players are based on the X engine?" I need to know which are the main engines used by Ubuntu video players.

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    You need to change this question to "what engine X application use" so that this not become a useless list of repeated answers and it is better defined. – Bruno Pereira Feb 26 '13 at 15:42
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    That is not the purpose of the site: 1 question > 1 correct answer (most of the times, depending on the number of affected releases). The way you are asking sounds like *Give me all possible video libraries used by all video players ever*. That is not a good question for us. – Bruno Pereira Feb 26 '13 at 16:03
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    Not sure if they are that many actually, for the main video players I know those would be the ones in use, but making it more specific would give you more specific answers for your needs. Can we do that? – Bruno Pereira Feb 26 '13 at 16:10
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    Oh this is becoming confusing: are you trying to find out what video libs are used by an certain application or how many there are? Why? – Bruno Pereira Feb 26 '13 at 16:23
  • @BrunoPereira:"Why?": just to know. i want to know this, i am curious how main video players are different according to each engine. and as i expect that there are not so many "engines", **here** i ask which are these engines. about players for **each** engine i might ask in separate questions –  Feb 26 '13 at 16:30
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    http://ubuntuforums.org – RolandiXor Feb 26 '13 at 17:04
  • This *really* needs some clarification. What exactly are you asking? – Seth Feb 26 '13 at 23:03

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The default "main" video player in Ubuntu is totem and it uses GStreamer as the multimedia framework.

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  • in a comment here (http://askubuntu.com/a/261543/47206) i see that also Banshee and Parole use it –  Feb 26 '13 at 15:33