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Playing Musicand VideoOne of the most popular and enjoyable activities on acomputer is playing audio and video. With improvedmultimedia players and tools for storing and managing con- tent, Linux has become a great platform for storing, playing, and managing your music and video files. In this chapter, you learn to use the sound, video, digital imag- ing, and other multimedia tools available for Linux. You explorethe process of configuring audio and select video devices andexamine the kinds of media formats available for Linux plat- form, how they work, and how to make the most of them byusing the right applications. Linux is an excellent platform for taking advantage of widelyused formats such as MPEG, AVI, OGG, QuickTime, andRealMedia. There are several players available for the variousformats, and this chapter discusses several of them to helpyou determine which might be the right one (or combination) for your interests and/or needs. Probably still the most widely used piece of multimedia tech- nology remains the CD-ROM, so this chapter takes a detailedlook at setting up and burning your own CDs. Regardless ofyour need to store data or create audio and software CDs, youwill find there are many tools to help you get the job done. Playing Digital Media and Obeying the LawWhat an end user can legally do with digital media is a hottopic right now. What exactly can you do as faras makingcopies of your CDs, DVDs, and other media? Unfortunately, there is no real good answer. This issue affects just aboutevery computer user, either directly or indirectly. 1919CHAPTER …In This ChapterLegal issues withdigital mediaUsing your Windowscontent on LinuxPlaying musicSetting up TV andaudio cardsRecording andripping musicWatching TV andcamerasWatching moviesandvideos …
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