totem-pl-parser

totem-pl-parser is an open source, small, free and simple GObject-based library software specially designed to parse a host of playlist formats, as well as to save them. As its name suggests, totem-pl-parser is a playlist parser library for the popular Totem media player.

What is Totem?

Also known as Videos, the Totem application is based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, and designed as the default video player app of the GNOME graphical desktop environment. It can play almost any format supported by the GStreamer codec packs.

Depends on various open source software

To install the totem-pl-parser program, you will need various open source software, such as gmime (libgmime), libquvi, libquvi-scripts, lua-bitop, lua-expat, and lua-socket. These are installed automatically if you install totem-pl-parser from the software repositories of your distribution.

Is installed automatically with Totem

Another interesting feature is that totem-pl-parser is installed automatically with Totem, when the users attempts to install the application from the main software repositories of his/her GNU/Linux operating systems. This means that totem-pl-parser is an essential component of Totem (Movie Player), which is used for parsing playlists.

Build totem-pl-parser from sources

Build totem-pl-parser from sources might be challenging for newcomers, especially because of its dependencies. Basically, you will have to grab the source package from Softoware, save it on your Home directory, and unpack it using an archive manager.

Open a Terminal app, go to the location of the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softoware/totem-pl-parser-3.10.3), run the ‘.configure && make’ command to configure the project and built the executable, and then run the ‘sudo make install’ command to install it.

Can be installed on any GNU/Linux operating system

We’ve successfully installed the totem-pl-parser software on computers supporting either of the 64 or 32-bit instruction set architectures. It can be installed on any Linux kernel-based computer operating system.

What is new in this release:

• Fix small memory leaks
• Add support for "medium" property in podcasts
• Allow players to handle MJPEG streams
• Updated translations

What is new in version :

• Use Unicode in translatable strings
• Autotools build changes
• Enable videosite support even without quvi
• Port from GSimpleAsyncResult to GTask
• Fix shadowed URI variable in PLA parser
• Add support for GMime 3.0 API

What is new in version 3.10.7:

• Don't consider M3U playlists as text/plain
• Simplify ITMS link parsing
• Fix mmap error checking
• Build fixes

What is new in version 3.10.6:

• Fix a number of bugs in iTunes link handling and M3U and HLS playlist parsing.
• Make it possible to use an alternate helper script to the default quvi based one

What is new in version 3.10.4:

• Fix parsing of Windows-style SMB playlists
• Add support for EXTVLCOPT:audio-track-id in m3u files
• Fix parsing of SMIL playlists

What is new in version 3.10.3:

• Ignore partially downloaded files when recursing
• Fix crash when passing a broken URI
• Fix potential integer overflow when parsing long durations
• Fix potential crash when parsing RTSPtext QuickTime files
• Fix parsing of Windows Media files

What is new in version 3.10.0:

• Fix introspection for playlist saving.

What is new in version 3.2.0:

• Add support AmazonMP3 download files
• Update for glib deprecations
• Update API for newer versions of quvi
• Avoid quvi poking the remote files by verifying the URLs it generates. No good for one-time links.
• Fixes for warnings in introspection generation
• Add more test cases

What is new in version 2.32.6:

• Fix parsing of remote RSS feeds
• Add support for M4U/MXU playlists

What is new in version 2.32.5:

• Fix parsing of iTunes podcasts
• Use libarchive to detect media discs in ISO files, instead of gvfs, which makes it more reliable
• Add support for new quvi properties (duration and thumbnail URL)

What is new in version 2.32.4:

• Fix --enable-quvi option
• Fix getting past the last line of PLS files
• Add "content-type" property when available

What is new in version 2.32.2:

• Parse links to video websites using libquvi
• Fix parsing data from broken HTTP servers
• Fix warning when opening a directory fails
• Fix parsing some ASF redirections masquerading as WMA files

What is new in version 2.30.3:

• Fix parsing of M3U files with ":" in their titles
• Fix parsing of files hiding as MP4 files (eg. an FLV with an MP4 extension)

What is new in version 2.30.2:

• Fix parsing PLS playlists with "holes" in the numbering
• Fix crash in totem_pl_parser_parse_with_base when parsing PHP files that really are PHP files
• Add Genre extension to XSPF playlists
• Fix itms links parsing
• Add support for Last.fm's new XSPF extensions

What is new in version 2.30.1:

• Fix parsing of a number of Podcasts, including possible crashers
• Fix parsing of playlists on HTTP servers when they don't match the suffix used (eg. PHP page giving an XSPF playlist)
• A few win32 compilation fixes
• Use GIO for decompressing Podcasts

What is new in version 2.29.92:

• Fix parsing of Guardian Podcasts
• Fix parsing of pukas.wax playlist
• Fix directory file descriptor leak
• Fix versioning of the introspection support

What is new in version 2.27.92:

• Speed up PLS parsing
• Fix error when trying to activate a data mount in Totem's Movie menu
• Try harder to ignore text files
• Fix test parser

Requirements:

• Totem
• GLib2
• GMime