From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Multimedia Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 11:34:54 GMT
In article <26m7jb$nol@access.digex.net> brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes:
>I understand what can be done with CD Players and Sound Cards under DOS,
>Sun, MS Windows, etc. What can Linux do? Any FAQs or other sources?
>
Linux supports most common sound cards and several CD-ROM drives (like the
Mitsumi). There are programs like workman for playing audio CD's. THere is
also an MPEG player (mpeg_play) available for X windows, although this likes
a fast video card, a fastish computer and preferably the X server reconfigured
for shared memory buffer support. The mpeg player doesn't yet support combined
audio/video playing.
Unlike MS-Windows Linux supports tcp/ip based network audio - so you can play
sounds from remote hosts (rplay) and you can play mpeg movies across the network
(clobbers the network bandwidth 8-)).
It's not yet a nice integrated piece but the bits are all there.
Alan