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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.

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 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

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

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)

MediaPlayers are applications that allow you to view various 'media'.

Players avalible for Linux:


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