Multimedia and Games

Multimedia and Games

Playing a Song on Linux

Apart from being able to view and create graphics and other images, the PC is capable of supporting a wide range of audio and video features and facilities. These include the playing of audio CDs, audio digital files, VCD and DVD as well as multimedia games.

While support may be available in the software, the necessary hardware has to be available before these multimedia facilities can be used, e.g. a DVD drive is required to be present on the system before you can play a DVD. By default most modern PCs come with a CD-ROM drive capable of playing audio CDs and VCDs as well as a soundcard and speakers.

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Linux Doesn't support MP3 or any such patented audio/video format to avoid controversies, you can buy mp3 codec support later. Many of the format available in the market are not free and belongs to their owners and their licensing terms are not compatible with GNU GPL(General Public License) or other such licenses, thus they tries to impose restrictions on source code distribution and tries to limit your freedom.

Linux does not include them to maintain is vision Free software for everyone. I accept this situation can be very annoying some time but trust me Linux community is working harder than the hardest to patch-up and overcome these issues. We hope that coming Linux versions will have better user experience especially is the field of Audio/Video format support.

Playing a song with XMMS

To start XMMS player type xmms (all small) at the prompt and press enter.

This is XMMS media player.

Or you can also create a desktop shortcut for easy access. To create a desktop shortcut right-click on the desktop and select Create Launcher from the shortcut menu

In the Name field type the display name for the shortcut and in the Command field type xmms select an icon for your shortcut and click on OK to create the shortcut.

To play a song with XMMS, do the following:

1. Start the XMMS player either by clicking on desktop shortcut or by typing xmms at the prompt.

2. Right-click in the XMMS player area and select Play File and locate the file that you want to play

To add the whole directory to the playlist select Play Directory and from the directory selector select the directory that you want to add.

XMMS is one of the best player available in the world of Linux.

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If you don't have XMMS installed on your system you can install XMMS by running the following yum command:- yum install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 gstreamer-plugins-uglylibmad libid3tag this command requires active internet connection.

Click here to Download some OGG songs .

Multimedia and Games   Playing Audio CD   You can play an audio CD by placing the CD into the CD-ROM drive. The CD player application will be run automatically to play the CD. Ensure that your speakers are turned on so that you can hear the CD! You can also manually start the CD Player application from the Main Menu:   Applications-> Sound & Video --> CD Player       You can control the CD Player just like a normal CD player with the buttons shown on the CD Player screen. These include volume control, track forward/backward, play/pause, stop, eject as well as jumping to any track on the CD directly.         Multimedia and Games   Playing VCD and DVD   There are several excellent applications readily available for you to use to play VCD and DVD media. Here we shall look at two of them: Xine and Mplayer. These can also play CD and digital audio music files.   Xine   The xine application may be used to play VCD and DVD. You can start xine from the Main Menu:   Applications --> Sound & Video --> Xine   The xine user interface is highly intuitive as it resembles a normal VCD/DVD player with all the basic control knobs and buttons.   To play a VCD place the VCD into the CD-ROM drive and click on the VCDO button on the Xine control panel.   To play a DVD place the DVD into the DVD drive and click on the DVD button on the Xine control panel.   The volume control can be adjusted by clicking on the volume control button.     In the event that the Xine control panel interferes with the playing screen image, you can hide it by right-clicking on the panel itself and select GUI visibility.   This will hide the Xine control panel. To bring back the Xine control panel right-click on the playing screen and select GUI visibility again. Xine is a very powerful multimedia application with many features. It can also play audio CDs as well as digital audio files.         Multimedia and Games   Playing Linux Games   Apart from Office and Graphics Tools Linux also have a lot of games built into it. If you have selected games package at the time of installation then hundreds of games are made available to you immediately after the installation. Just browse Games menu under the Applications menu to check out the games available on your system.   Nibbles   Nibbles is a game where the user controls a snake. The snake moves around the board, eating diamonds while avoiding the walls placed around it.     To run Nibbles, select Games ? Nibbles from the Applications menu, or type gnibbles on the command line.     Nibbles is included in the gnome-games package, which is part of the GNOME desktop environment. This document describes version 2.8 of Nibbles.   Same GNOME   The most important rule when aiming for a high score is to think ahead: each group you remove will form and destroy other groups. Remove higher groups first, unless removing another group will make it larger. Vertically aligned objects can't be misaligned, but horizontal arrangements can.   Since the score increases quadratically, big groups of objects are always better. For example, the points difference between a six object group and a seven object group is nine points. In a situation where you have a choice between merging two groups of two into four or just adding one more to the group of six then you should add the single object. Even though the groups of two you are left with score no points, the bigger group scores more overall.     Apart from above mentioned games, there are a lot of other games available. You can also buy commercial games for Linux platform.