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Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:57:49 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Saturday, July 16, 2005 9:40:06 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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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.
+MediaPlayer~s are applications that allow you to view various 'media'.
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
+Quick summary of players avalible for Linux:
+* [MPlayer]
+* mpg123(1)
+* [mpg321 | http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg321]
+* ogg123(1)
+* RealPlayer
+* [Totem]
+* VideoLanClient
+* [Xine]
+* [XMMS]
+
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!! Audio Players
[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
+!! Video Players
[Totem]:
A [GNOME] video player using either [Xine] or [GStreamer] (see below).
[MPlayer]:
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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'.
-Players avalible for Linux:
-* [MPlayer]
-* [Xine]
-* [XMMS]
-* [Totem]
-* VideoLanClient
-* RealPlayer
-* mpg123(1)
-* [mpg321 | http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg321]
-* ogg123(1)
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