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Agenda
Desktop environments
Playing digital audio files
Ripping audio CDs and DVDs
Burning CD/DVD
Playing VCD/DVD discs
Managing your Digital photos
Future or multimedia
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Desktop environments
GNU/Linux provides a variety of desktop environments that are highlycustomizable
KDE and GNOME are two of the most popular desktop environments thatmimic somewhat of a MS windows type of desktop.
Fluxbox is a very light weight window manager/desktop suitable for low-end machines or for running resource hungry apps.
XFCE is also a light weight desktop environment that is very fast.
Other enhancements such as skins, splash screens, icons, desktopcomponents act as good eye candy to enhance look and feel.
Other technologies such as translucency, text-to-speech (TTS), voicerecognition and 3d environments are evolving enhancements.
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Desktop environments
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Playing digital audio files
Digital Audio formatsDigital Audio formats
Mp3 Ogg FLAC wav
Mp3
Popular formatProprietary/PatentedQuality is lost whenconverting but can beencoded so that itsdifficult to distinguish
Ogg
Stands for Ogg Vorbis Free file formatQuality loss occurs buthas better quality whencompared to mp3
FLAC
Stands for free losslessaudio codecFree file formatAudio quality is not lostwhen converting.Provides bettercompression than WAV
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Digital Audio players
XMMS is a winAMP like audio playerXMMS can handle mp3/ogg/wav/audio CDsXMMS supports skins and visualizationpluginsMp3 for XMMS is crippled on Redhat/Fedoradue to patent issues. Check out http://www.fedorafaq.org/Amarok is a newer player with more featureslike managing albums and getting stats
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Ripping Audio CDs
KaudioCreator can RIP audio CDs into ogg,mp3, wav or flac formatsIt can also retrieve track titles if yourconnect to the Internet using freedb(www.freedb.org)Encoding is done using helper command linetools such as oggenc, lame and flac so makesure you have them installed
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Burning CD/DVD discs
K3B has a very user-friendly interface Can darg-n-drop mp3/ogg/wav etc. to createa custom audio CDCan be used to create data CD/DVDWith additional software/plugins can evencreate VCD/DVD movies by drag-n-drop avifiles.Features such as Multi session, Burnfree aresupported
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Playing VCD/DVD discs
Xine is a media player that can handle VCD/DVD (with menu) as well as audio filesMplayer can also play VCD/DVD but doesn't currently have menu support.Mplayer supports the most number of movie file formats (over 200 audio/videocodecs). Check out http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.htmlPlaying encrypted DVDs require downloading and installing the libdvdcss. Checkout http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
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Managing your CD & DVD Collection
Tellico can managecollections such as DVD,Books, Audio CDs, etc.
Amarok can manageripped audio collections
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Taking & Managing Digital Photos
Digikam can importphotos directly from acamera or an existingdirectory
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Future or multimedia
Pause/FF/Rewind Live TVAs a digital VCR withscheduling capabilities Easy navigation using aremote controlAutomatically skipcommercials.Watch DVDs, listen to Music,browse digital photos, getweather reports/news feedsetc.Can automatically get TVprogram listings from thenet using xmltvCustomizable using themesand plugins
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Resources & Links
KDE desktop - http://www.kde.org
GNOME desktop - http://www.gnome.org
Fluxbox desktop - http://www.fluxbox.org
XMMS player - http://www.xmms.org
Amarok player - http://amarok.kde.org/
k3b - http://www.k3b.org/
xine video player - http://xine.sourceforge.net/
mplayer video player - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
Tellico collection maneger - http://www.periapsis.org/tellico
Digikam - http://digikam.sourceforge.net/
MythTV - http://www.mythtv.org
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