Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition
Viewing Video in Linux
Viewing Video in Linux
Because of the patent and licensing issues mentioned earlier, the capability to play video files has been removed from Fedora. This functionality can be restored if you install the full version of the applications described in this section from FreshRPMs at http://www.freshrpms.net/. There you can find multimedia applications such as Ogle, Xine, AlsaPlayer, Gstreamer, Grip, Mplayer, VCDImager, VideoLAN-client, Xmms, and Zapping.
You can use Linux software to watch TV, save individual images (take snapshots) from a televised broadcast, save a series of snapshots to build animation sequences, or capture video, audio, or both. The following sections describe some of the ways in which you can put Linux multimedia software to work for you.
The noatun
viewer is provided with Fedora to use as an embedded viewer in the Konqueror browser. noatun
is set up as the default association for the video file formats it plays. Open a video file in Konqueror or Nautilus, and the video is shown in the viewer if it is supported. The viewer provides basic Start, Stop, and Fast-Forward VCR-type functions.
You can watch MPEG and DVD video with Xine. Xine is a versatile and popular media player that is not included with Fedora. Xine is used to watch AVI, QuickTime, Ogg, and MP3 files (the latter is disabled in Fedora).
Macromedia Flash
The Macromedia Flash plug-in for the Mozilla browser is a commercial multimedia application that isn't provided with Fedora, but many people find it useful. Macromedia Flash enables you to view Flash content at websites that support it. The Mozilla plug-in can be obtained from http://macromedia.mplug.org/. Both .rpm
and .tar.gz
files are provided.
Having trouble with the Macromedia Flash plug-in for Mozilla? Just manually copy the files flashplayer.xpt
and libflashplayer.so
to /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.x/plugins
, where x is the latest point release for Firefox (2.0.0.4 at the time of writing). An .rpm
file for Flash that should install without problems is available from http://macromedia.mplug.org/.
Another interesting video viewer application is MPlayer (not provided by Fedora), a movie player for Linux. MPlayer can use Win32 codecs and it supports a wider range of video formats than Xine, including Divx and some RealMedia files. MPlayer also uses some special display drivers that support Matrox, 3Dfx, and Radeon cards and can make use of some hardware MPEG decoder boards for better MPEG decoding. Look for Fedora pack ages at http://www.mplayerhq.hu; a Win32 codec package is also available, as well as other codec packages and a GUI interface.
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