gxine plays MPEG system (audio and video) streams, MPEG elementary streams (e.g. .mp3, .mpa or .mpv files), MPEG transport streams, AVI files, ASF files, Quicktime files, (S)VCDs and DVDs - anything which xine-lib can handle.

Typical usage looks like

gxine some.mpg gxine -f dvd:/ gxine dvd://home/user/dvd/my.iso

-A audio_driver --audio audio_driver

Select which libxine audio driver to use. This setting is not permanent, but it does prevent selection of other drivers via the preferences window.

-V video_driver --video video_driver

Select which libxine video driver to use. This setting is not permanent, but it does prevent selection of other drivers via the preferences window.

-S --no-splash

Don't show the splash window during startup.

-a --add

Don't clear the playlist before adding any MRLs; start playing the first new MRL.

-e --enqueue

Don't clear the playlist before adding any MRLs; don't start playing the first new MRL.

-f --full-screen

Start in full-screen mode.

-c Javascript --command Javascript

Javascript command(s) to be executed immediately after starting up.

-v --verbose

Verbose mode: output information about plugins, the video stream, commands executed etc. Repeat for more verbosity.

There are a couple of features which aren't immediately obvious: in full-screen mode, you can right-click to get access to the menus, or middle-click to show or hide the player controls.