Summary

This chapter takes you through the steps of setting up and using audio, video, and digital cameras in Fedora and RHEL. It covers topics such as troubleshooting your sound card and explains how to find software to play music through that card. Many popular music players included with Fedora and RHEL, such as gnome-cd and Rhythmbox are described.

With nearly every type of audio and video format available today in Linux, the biggest trick is figuring out which software is legal to use freely and which isn't. Because Red Hat tends to be conservative when it comes to patent claims to multimedia, you might need to dig up the audio and video codecs you need on your own. I tried to cover some of the legal issues surrounding multimedia software patents, so you can try to make informed decisions.

Live video from TV cards and Webcams is covered in the sections on tvtime and Ekiga, respectively. I cover the xine and Totem players for playing a variety of video formats, followed by the GNOME Volume Manager for downloading images from a digital camera. If your computer has a CD burner , use the descriptions in this chapter to create your own music CDs and CD labels. You can also burn complete CD or DVD ISO images using the K3b window.