Multimedia

This article describes how you can listen to music and watch movies on your Linux computer.

Sound

• to play any kind of music file, use mplayer
• to play a CD, start kaffeine and click on "Play Audio CD"
• to record sound, use an audio editor like krecord or audacity
• CD ripping and encoding can be done easily with tools such as grip or cdparanoia. KDE users can Rip and Encode Audio CDs from the File Manager and other Frontends
• you can listen to webradio

Video

• to watch any movie file, use a video player like mplayer

mplayer will automatically contain all codecs you need if you install it as described at mplayer.

• to watch any DVD (including DVDs with a menu) use VLC media player
• to get a video from your camcorder onto your computer via FireWire, use kino
• to get a video from your mobile phone, use Bluetooth
• Watch TV using a Hauppage WinTV PVR USB2

• The links below describe how to use
  • webcams
  • digital cameras

See also

• areas