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-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.
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-MP3
]? [QuickTime]? [DivX]? You've come to the right place.
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-!!Music
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-; __[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/.
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-!!Video
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-; [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.
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-!!Backends
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-If you're a programmer, and you want to build media into your application, you could look at something like
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-; [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)
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+Describe
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