Difference between revisions of "Multimedia Audio and Video in Linux"

Revision as of 11:54, 12 April 2008

Most modern desktop Linux distributions offer all of the complete audio and video multimedia features available on the Macintosh and Windows PC. Everything from DVD, Mpeg, Streaming, Mp3, DivX, and so on can be played, edited, and copied just the same as on the other two popular OS platforms.

One great advantage to media on Linux is - no built-in DRM!

XFree86, KDE, Gnome

MPlayer

Movie and video player.

· MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5

· Windows Media 7/8/9

· RealAudio/Video up to 9

· Quicktime 5/6

· VCD/DVD playback

· KDE & Gnome

Rhythmbox

iTunes like music management application designed for Gnome.

· Internet Radio support

· Gnome

Totem

Video media player designed for Gnome.

· DVD, VCD, Video

· Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists

· Gnome

XMMS

XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It was modeled after winamp from the Windows operating system.

· MP3

· Wav

· Modules

· KDE & Gnome

Console

Text mode audio and video players for the command shell.

CMus - C* Music Player

Ncurses music player.

· FLAC

· Ogg/Vorbis

· MP3 (libmad)

· Wav

· Modules (libmodplug)

MOC — Console Audio Player for Linux

Ncurses audio player.

Mp3blaster

Ncurses all text audio player.

· MP3

Orpheus

Ncurses music player.

· CDs

· MP3

· Vorbis OGG

· Stream broadcasts