This is a bit of fun: a media player framework, written in Bash, that will use various players as a back-end. It also has a serious use in embedded systems, where resources are scarce, but for those who spend most of their time using a virtual terminal, the appeal will be a player with some useful features, yet written in that most humble of scripting languages, Bash.
PlayShell, when first started, will search your system for media players. It works with VLC, MPlayer, SoX and FFPlay, and is capable of using some more minimal players like amp, aplay, gst123, madplay, mpg321, mpg123 and splay. As a Bash script it can be run directly where it’s unpacked, but it also comes with an install script, which gives you configuration files and…
