Kaffeine

Kaffeine
DeveloperKDE
Preview release— [±]
Written inC++ (Qt)
Operating systemUnix-like
Available inMultilingual
TypeMedia player
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websiteapps.kde.org/kaffeine/ Edit this on Wikidata
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Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like operating systems by KDE.

By default it uses libVLC media framework but also supports GStreamer. It also supports the use of MPlayer project's binary codecs for proprietary formats.

Kaffeine developers have also produced a Mozilla plugin to start the player for streaming content over the web.

Features include streaming, DVD, Video CD and CD audio,and ever since version >0.5 also provides full DVB support,[4] And, can simultaneously play and record multiple different channels within the same transponder.

Nicely handles multiple frontends on a single device.

DiSEqC 1.x switches, DiSEqC 1.2 rotors and USALS.

The most recent official stable version is 2.0.19, released in November 2024.

Supported Features

Supported Multi Standards

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nag, Aditya (22 March 2005). "Open-Source Equivalents to Windows Programs: Choices, Choices, Choices..." CoolTechZone. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Kaffeine - Community Help Wiki".
  3. ↑ "Kaffeine - KDE UserBase Wiki".
  4. ↑ "Kaffeine Changelog". GitHub. Retrieved 11 October 2026.