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268 lines
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>Video playing, streams and television watching</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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TITLE="Introduction to Linux"
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TITLE="Sound and Video"
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TITLE="Sound and video playing"
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TITLE="Internet Telephony"
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>Introduction to Linux: </TH
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>Chapter 11. Sound and Video</TD
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>11.3. Video playing, streams and television watching</H1
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>Various players are available:</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>xine</B
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>: a free video player</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>ogle</B
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>: DVD player.</P
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></LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>okle</B
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>: KDE version of <B
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CLASS="command"
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>ogle</B
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></P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>mplayer</B
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>: Movie Player for Linux</P
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></LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>totem</B
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>: plays both audio and video files, audio CDs, VCD and DVD.</P
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></LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>realplay</B
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>: from RealNetworks.</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>hxplay</B
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>: a Real alternative, see <A
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HREF="http://helixcommunity.org"
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TARGET="_top"
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>HelixDNA</A
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>.</P
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>kaffeine</B
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>: media player for KDE3.</P
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>Most likely, you will find one of these in your graphical menus.</P
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>Keep in mind that all codecs necessary for viewing different types of video might not be on your system by default. You can get a long way downloading <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>W32codecs</SPAN
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> and <SPAN
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CLASS="application"
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>libdvdcss</SPAN
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>.</P
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>The <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>LDP</A
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> released a document that is very appropriate for this section. It is entitled <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/index.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>DVD Playback HOWTO</A
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> and describes the different tools available for viewing movies on a system that has a DVD drive. It is a fine addition to the <A
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HREF="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DVD-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>DVD HOWTO</A
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> that explains installation of the drive.</P
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>For watching TV there is choice of the following tools, among many others for watching and capturing TV, video and other streams:</P
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><LI
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>tvtime</B
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>: great program with station management, interaction with teletext, film mode and <A
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HREF="http://tvtime.sourceforge .net/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>much more</A
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><LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>zapping</B
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>: Gnome-specific TV viewer.</P
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><LI
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><P
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><B
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CLASS="command"
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>xawtv</B
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>: X11 TV viewer.</P
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>Prev</A
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