Downloads : 133098
( 64 reviews )

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

GPL
2.0.1
Downloads : 22312
( 65 reviews )

MPlayer is a movie and animation player based on the 0.2.0 version of libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) and the Avifile library. It uses mpeg2dec/libmpeg2 for MPEG decoding. The supported file formats are MPEG 1/2 (MPG, DAT, BIN, VOB) and AVI/ASF/WMF(Mpeg/PCM/AC3/DivX/MS-ADPCM/aLaw audio, MPEG4/DivX/Indeo/CVID/WMF video codecs and many more). (more...)

Open Source
1.0rc2
Downloads : 16264
( 77 reviews )

Xmms is a multimedia player based on the look of winamp. Currently it plays mpeg layer 1/2/3 wav/au and all formats supported by libmikmod, also it plays CD audio and more.

GPL
1.2.11
Downloads : 15424
( 9 reviews )

Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.

GPL
3.4.0
3.3.92
Downloads : 13910
( 5 reviews )

SMPlayer is a new multimedia player, it uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it's able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... (more...)

GPL
0.8.0
Downloads : 11388
( 16 reviews )

Eye of Gnome is the default image viewer for the Gnome Desktop. Beside the general image viewing component (which is also used by the Nautilus filemanager), there is now a first version of a photo collection view. Of course, this can be also used inside Nautilus eg. for watching slide shows. Optionally, Eye of Gnome can make use of EXIF information, stored in digital camera images.

GPL
3.4.1
3.5.1
Downloads : 10451
( 2 reviews )

A no-nonsense, simple to use, small viewer for cbr (comic book archive) files. As it is written in C, the executable is small and fast. It views jpg (or jpeg), gif and png images, and you can zoom in and out. I can now view cbr, cbz and cb7 archives.

GPL
0.9.22
Downloads : 10264
( 40 reviews )

Xine is a free, gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems. xine plays videos synchronizing the playback of image and audio. Depending on the properties of the stream, playback will need more or less processing power.

GPL
1.1.6
Downloads : 8702
( 5 reviews )

LX-Viewer is a program that will allow you to open, view and print DWG or DXF files, typically used in AutoCAD related technical drafting. You may zoom and pan the drawing as you would in AutoCAD. Files can be saved to DWG or DXF formats from AutoCAD version 2.5 to 2000 plus BMP and PNG formats. Files can be printed or plotted to a Postscript printer or to file. (more...)

GPL
1.0.2
1.1
Downloads : 7131
( 13 reviews )

DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. digiKam also provides tagging functionality. (more...)

GPL
2.5.0
2.6.0-rc
Downloads : 5450
( 1 review )

Gst-Player is a full-featured mediaplayer built using the GStreamer multimedia framework. Most important video and audio formats supported. Full screen playback supported.

GPL
0.6.0
Downloads : 5430
( 3 reviews )

Kaffeine is a full featured Multimedia-Player for KDE. By default it uses xine as backend.

GPL
0.8.7
Downloads : 5089
( 33 reviews )

A simple image viewer, includes single click file viewing, thumbnail preview, zoom, drag and drop, and external editor support. Multiple files can selected for moving, copying, deleting, renaming, or dragging. Also include slideshow and fullscreen options.

GPL
2.0.4
Downloads : 4973
( 4 reviews )

GLiv is an OpenGL image viewer, image loading is done via Gdk-pixbuf bundled with GTK+-2.6, rendering with OpenGL and the graphical user interface uses GTK+ with GtkGLExt. GLiv is very fast and smooth at rotating, panning and zooming if you have an OpenGL accelerated graphics board. It supports thumbnails and navigating through them using two images menus.

GPL
1.9.6
Downloads : 3854
( 1 review )

A JPEG image viewer which uses svgalib to display images. It works out the best video mode to use based on the video card, image size and user options. This can be overridden. It contains GIF, PPM, BMP and TARGA viewing support, and can show images in a slideshow. This version adds long versions of the program arguments and options to constrain the video mode used.

Freely distributable
1.10
Downloads : 3816
( 4 reviews )

NontonVCD is a VideoCD player. It supports fullscreen, VCD seek, and volume control.

GPL
0.3.5
Downloads : 3608
( 8 reviews )

IMGV is a cross-platform image viewer. (more...)

GPL
3.1.5
Downloads : 3144
( 1 review )

GTKSee is an image viewer and image browser with slide show capability, which aims to be an ACDSee clone. GTKSee depend from GTK+, libjpeg, libtiff and libpng. Some images format supported: BMP, GIF, PCX, PPM, PSD, SUN, TGA, XBM, XCF, XPM, XWD.

GPL
0.6.0b1
Downloads : 2756
( Not rated )

Miro makes video on the Internet less frustrating and more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of Internet video, download videos, and watch them full screen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes Internet TV.

GPL
5.0
Downloads : 2611
( 2 reviews )

PikView is an image viewer which uses the KDE libraries. It can read the following image types: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, NetPBM, and via the (optional) ImageMagick library EPS, PICT, DCX, PCX, MIF, BMP, VIFF, and PNM. It also supports asynchronous preloading, zooming, thumbnails (cachable), rapid image filing, fullscreen, printing, slideshow, and flicker-free repainting.

GPL
0.9.1
Downloads : 2386
( 1 review )

Zgv is a full-featured picture viewer for VGA/SVGA displays which supports most popular formats. (It uses svgalib.) It provides a file selector with thumbnails to select file(s) to view, and allows panning and fit-to-screen methods of viewing, slideshows, scaling, etc.

GPL
5.9
Downloads : 2127
( 1 review )

KSquirrel is an image viewer for KDE with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface and tools to resize, rotate, convert, colorize and print images. 41 image formats are supported. (more...)

GPL
0.8.0
Downloads : 2122
( 1 review )

The QVV image viewer is targeted for keyboard use and to have a simple interface. Nearly all features can be accessed with the keyboard. It depends only on the Qt library. It can run on all platforms supported by Qt library: Linux, UNIX/X11, Mac OS X, Windows.

GPL
4.02
Downloads : 2004
( 1 review )

A (Window Maker) dock app for interfacing MPD (based on WMxmms).

GPL
0.10.0
Downloads : 1993
( 3 reviews )

KuickShow is a very fast image viewer, that lets you easily browse large galleries. A builtin filebrowser and manager is also available. Usage is somewhat inspired by ACDSee.

GPL
0.8.5
1
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