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!! [MP3]? [QuickTime]? [DivX]? You've come to the right place.
-Linux used to be slated for its lack of ability to play multimedia
(music, video, etc). Today there is almost nothing that you can't play on Linux, and it's not very tricky at all. In fact you may find it to be much less of a hassle than the constant CoDec-hunting needed in MicrosoftWindows.
+Linux used to be slated for its lack of ability to play MultiMedia
(music, video, etc). Today there is almost nothing that you can't play on Linux, and it's not very tricky at all. In fact you may find it to be much less of a hassle than the constant CoDec-hunting needed in MicrosoftWindows.
!! Audio
-; __
[Beep Media Player | http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/]__
: a fork
of [XMMS] updated for [GTK2] and renamed at the bequest of the company that maintains [XMMS]. Some recompiling of plugins is required (MostPeople probably don't use any) but otherwise BMP is [XMMS] is BMP. If you have [XMMS], get this
.
-;
RhythmBox : an [Apple | AppleCorporation]
iTunes inspired interface for Linux. Now officially part of
[GNOME] (
built on [GStreamer]). If you have FedoraCore 1, you have this, although without MP3 support -- see [http://www.ieeto.net/rpm/
].
-; __
[StreamTuner | http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/]__
: is RhythmBox done right. Great support for
internet radio and
the Local-plugin allows browsing mp3'
s in a useful manner (
by directories on disc) without the need to edit ID-tags
.
+[Beep Media Player | http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/]:
+ A [Fork]
of [XMMS] updated for [GTK2] and renamed at the bequest of the company that maintains [XMMS].
+RhythmBox:
+ An
iTunes-
inspired interface for [GNOME],
built on [GStreamer].
+[StreamTuner | http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/]:
+ Mainly concentrates on
internet radio, but
the Local-plugin allows browsing [MP3]
s by directories on disc.
!! Video
-;
[Totem] : a
GNOME video player using either [Xine] or [GStreamer] (see below).
-;
[MPlayer] : one
of the original [X11] video players, which uses its own media libraries. A lot of OpenSource codecs
start life as part of [MPlayer].
+[Totem]:
+ A [
GNOME]
video player using either [Xine] or [GStreamer] (see below).
+[MPlayer]:
+ One
of the original [X11] video players, which uses its own media libraries. A lot of OpenSource CoDec~s
start life as part of [MPlayer].
!! Backends
If you're a programmer, and you want to build media into your application, you could look at something like
-;
[Xine] : originally
an open source media player application, xine split into into a player and a backend (xine-lib), which is the basis for many other media front ends (such as [Totem].)
-;
[GStreamer] : the
[GNOME] media framework (in the same way that DirectX is the Windows media framework)
+[Xine]:
+ Originally
an open source media player application, xine split into into a player and a backend (xine-lib), which is the basis for many other media front ends (such as [Totem].)
+[GStreamer]:
+ The
[GNOME] media framework (in the same way that DirectX is the Windows media framework.
)
-[
MediaPlayer]
s are applications that allow you to view various 'media'.
+MediaPlayer~
s are applications that allow you to view various 'media'.
Players avalible for Linux:
* [MPlayer]
* [Xine]
