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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Thursday, June 3, 2004 12:28:49 pm | by HiJo | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:34:49 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
-Linux used to be slated for it
's 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
.
+!! [MP3]? [QuickTime]? [DivX]? You
've come
to the right place
.
-[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
.
-!!Music
+!! Audio
-; __[Beep Media Player|http://www
.linux-media
.net/beep
/]__ : [XMMS] updated for [GTK
]2 (
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/.
+; __[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
.
-!!Video
+!! 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 open source
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
codecs start life as part of [
MPlayer]
.
-!!Backends
+!! 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)
+; [GStreamer] : the [
GNOME]
media framework (in the same way that DirectX is the Windows media framework)
-Media players
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]
@@ -28,8 +29,9 @@
* [Totem]
* VideoLanClient
* RealPlayer
* mpg123(1)
-* [mpg321|http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg321]
+* [mpg321 | http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg321]
+* ogg123(1)
----
-CategoryBeginners (''Welcome back to the "Should This Be A Category" discussion...'')
+CategoryBeginners
