Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition
Multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is a big thing these days, with many different people carrying USB flash drives full of music, photos, and other media types. Fedora itself includes the GIMP, a powerful graphic manipulation package, along with gThumb for managing your photo collections. It is also well served in the music department, offering a CD player, CD ripper, and media player to handle various free codec-based files. You are also able to obtain software to watch DVDs and other proprietary video formats, although this may be illegal in your country.
NOTE
Fedora doesn't ship with MP3 support as standard, nor does it include support for many of the standard formats found within Windows or Mac OS X. This is down to the patents that are used in the development of these formats, more commonly known as codecs. Inclusion of these codecs in Fedora is prevented due to the legality of the licenses and patents involved. However, all is not lost. Some third-party repositories offer plug-ins for the multimedia applications bundled with Fedora, which allow them to use additional codecs.
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