Chapter 10. Multimedia Applications
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The twenty-first century has become the century of the digital lifestyle, with millions of computer users around the world embracing new technologies such as digital cameras, MP3 players, and other assorted multimedia gadgets. Whereas 10 years ago you might have had a collection of WAV files littering your Windows installation, nowadays you are more likely to have hundreds, if not thousands of MP3 files scattered across various computers. Along with video clips, animations, and other graphics, the demand for organizing and maintaining these vast libraries is driving development of applications. Popular proprietary applications such as iTunes and Google's Picasa are coveted by Linux users, but open source applications are starting to appear that provide real alternatives, and for some the final reasons they need to move to Linux full time. This chapter provides an overview of some of the basic multimedia tools included with Fedora. You will see how to create your own CDs, watch TV, rip audio CDs into the open source OGG audio format for playback, as well as manage your media library. Note Continuing a move that began with the release of Red Hat 9, The Fedora Project maintains a philosophy that has been controversial with many longtime users. Because of concerns of potential liability arising from copyright and patent issues in the United States, Red Hat and The Fedora Project have voluntarily removed any functionality that could violate the intellectual property rights of others or subject Red Hat to any penalties. That does not mean individual users would be violating those same rights, so we have provided resources to the reader as to how some of that functionality can be restored; the choice is yours. By installing and using yum as described in Chapter 7, "Managing Software," you can easily restore full multimedia functionality to Fedora. Because Fedora uses UTF-8 language encoding, some non-Fedora applications will have display problems if they are not UTF-8 compliant. You can fix this by placing the following line in /etc/bashrc: export LANG=en_US SUPPORTED="en_US" LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL=C |
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