Audio-visual drivers?
Martin Gregorie
look at DVDs, hear CDs and play multimedia files but I keep banging into
a wall:
- Totem is apparently an empty shell with useless help that tells
me nothing about where to find codecs or how to install them.
- Rhythmbox is almost as bad, suggesting only a commercial MP3 codec.
I know nothing about this area except that mplayer seems to be useful
for video but not what shells are preferred for driving it. So, my
questions:
- what are the preferred application and codecs for playing sound
files and CDs
- what are the preferred application and codecs for playing
multimedia files and DVDs
I'm running a relatively freshly installed and fully updated copy of
FC7, so I'm using Gnome.
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Andy Burns
> I haven't bothered with multi-media stuff until recently. Now I need to
> look at DVDs, hear CDs and play multimedia files
> I'm running a relatively freshly installed and fully updated copy of
> FC7, so I'm using Gnome.
Set yourself up with either livna OR atrpms repo, you should find
gstreamer-bad/ugly,ffmpeg,a52 packages etc
Darren Salt
> I haven't bothered with multi-media stuff until recently. Now I need to
> look at DVDs, hear CDs and play multimedia files but I keep banging into a
> wall:
[snip]
> I know nothing about this area except that mplayer seems to be useful
> for video but not what shells are preferred for driving it. So, my
> questions:
> - what are the preferred application and codecs for playing sound
> files and CDs
Depends. mpg123, ogg123, gxine...
> - what are the preferred application and codecs for playing
> multimedia files and DVDs
gxine. :-)
Make sure that you have the ffmpeg libs - the more recent the better for
H.264 - and libmad and, for DVDs, libdvdcss2.
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alexd
> I haven't bothered with multi-media stuff until recently.
You will be pleasantly surprised about how good things have become. Having
used Windows Media Player and RealPlayer on Windows makes one wish there
was a Windows port of Kaffeine.
> - what are the preferred application and codecs for playing sound
> files and CDs
Audacity for MP3s - basically looks and feels like a GTK2 port of XMMS. I
don't have an optical drive, but I would be surprised if Audacity didn't
support one.
> - what are the preferred application and codecs for playing
> multimedia files and DVDs
Kaffeine for DVB and video files. I'm using Debian on x86-64, so I had to
grab a .deb from somewhere that had codecs in it to get Kaffeine to play
some less-common file formats. Kaffiene's wizard seem to do a good job of
working out what's what on one's system, and googling for it's output + the
name of your distro will usually lead you to the answer to any questions
that may arise.
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Tony Houghton
alexd <trof...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Audacity for MP3s - basically looks and feels like a GTK2 port of
> XMMS. I don't have an optical drive, but I would be surprised if
> Audacity didn't support one.
I think you mean Audacious. Audacity is a sound editor written with
wxWidgets although wx does use GTK+2 on Linux.
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alexd
D'oh, that's the one.
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Nix
>> - what are the preferred application and codecs for playing sound
>> files and CDs
>
> Depends. mpg123, ogg123
mpd rocks quite hard, especially if you stop and start X a lot. :)
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