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The correct title of this article is xine. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

xine

xine-ui running on PlayStation 2 Linux
Developer:	xine team
Latest release:	1.1.2 / 11 July 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Media player
License:	GPL
Website:	xinehq.de

xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name "Maxine" without "Ma"^[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library (xine-lib) that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization of audio and video streams. xine uses libraries from other projects such as liba52, libmpeg2, FFmpeg, libmad, FAAD2, and Ogle.^[2] xine also uses w32codecs for playback of various media formats such as Windows Media Video 9 and RealMedia 4.^[3]

1 Supported media formats
2 DVD Issues
3 See also
4 Reference
5 External link

[edit] Supported media formats

Physical media: CDs, DVDs, Video CDs
Container formats: 3gp, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia
Video codecs: 3ivx, Cinepak, DivX, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, XviD
Audio codecs: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, MP3, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA

[edit] DVD Issues

Since xine is not a member of DVD Forum, the xine project are not contractually obliged to insert user operation prohibition such as disallowing fast-forward or skipping during trailers and ads. However, without membership in the Forum, they also cannot support DVD Content Scrambling System encryption without the libdvdcss library, which was created by reverse engineering. The legal status of libdvdcss is questionable in several nations; in the United States, for example, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably prohibits reverse-engineering of CSS.