Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature

By , Published January 1, 2010

Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”.

Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is still basic and will be improved for the 1.6.0 release.”

The video playback window with controls

Video’s can also be controlled via the main application window

Video integration will become fully rounded in the next-but-one release of songbird, codenamed ‘Madonna’ which aims to include transcoding of videos for device syncing/transfer.

Thanks to maXer
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Mohan

    hmm…Intersting, but makes sense as they wanted be 1 to 1 with iTunes, look forward to testing this out. What would be awesome is if they integrated something like Amazon video on demand service, and replaced the crappy 7digital with Amazon MP3 store as 7digital isn’t that great in quality I regret buying one my favorite songs of last year on that site.

  • http://twitter.com/bonzi200x sajith kalathingal

    Any idea why songbird is still not in ubuntu repositories??

    • Mike

      It’s mainly because they use a their own patched version of XUL Runner, and Ubuntu doesn’t like that for security reasons. You can read more about it in an old post by stevel: http://whacked.net/2008/12/11/ubuntu-songbird-sitting-in-a-tree/
      They have been upstreaming their patches to Mozilla, and will hopefully be up to date and running the much faster Gecko 1.9.2 engine by SB 1.6. Wladimir Palant (maker of Adblock Plus) has since joined the Songbird team and is doing a great job working on this task while the devs are at work on features(http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/User:Stevel/XULRunner_Patches).. They have a really small team, so it takes time.

  • 6205

    Who cares for that bloated mozilla based crap? We have VLC.

    • Carl

      of course they are two separate things but I completely agree. there are plenty of apps that offer a cleaner more integrated experience such as VLC or Banshee for a more 1 to 1 comparison as it too manages audio and video libraries.

  • rkv

    i don’t use songbird, but i do watch True Blood :D

  • Anonymous

    Yet they still can’t manage GNOME integration. Songbird sticks out like a sore thumb on my desktop, this would be the one remaining feature that is missing for me to make it my day-to-day media player.

  • https://launchpad.net/~flimm Flimm

    What about Miro? That’s built on Mozilla’s rendering engine and was designed for video from the start.

  • Anonymous

    i just got ubuntu netbook remix and i cant find anything at all , i want songbird and docky 2 and things like that but i cant figure it out and cant find ubuntu apps section

 
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