Multimedia Solutions

Amarok — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 15, 2009 04:50 AM

Amarok is a powerful music player and manager made for the KDE Desktop environment. Amarok uses the gstreamer framework for music playback and encoding. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 and iTunes music stora aac files, aren't included in gstreamer by default. You can add support for such formats by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org

Audacious (formerly known as Beep Media Player) — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

Audacious or BMP as it was formerly known, is a rewrite of the classic XMMS player with a new, modern interface and various other featurs you would expect from a modern music player. All while keeping true to the lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player ideal. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in Audacious by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org

Audio capture in Skype and other devices — by crash — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:35 AM

If your skype test call doesn't give your voice back then you may have to enable your "microphone capture" an your "mic boost" devices. Note that this aren't the "microphone" device. This also applies to any other program that need microphone capturing, as the ekiga VoIP service, and is not skype unique feature.

Configuring Synaptics using HAL — by Walter Francis — last modified Jul 19, 2009 10:18 PM

By default, Fedora 11 ships with Tap disabled in the Synaptics touchpad. There are many methods to re-enable this, or to tweak other settings but until a configuration utility is created, the ideal way is to modify it in the HAL configuration. By doing this, each user will have the same settings, it will not be desktop-specific, and will not require setting up additional startup scripts, running synclient, or creating a xorg.conf file. Any setting you would normally do with synclient (either manually, via startup script, or in xorg.conf) can be done in the HAL configs as shown in the following example.

FAS VoIP HowTo — by renich — last modified May 01, 2009 02:35 PM

This HowTo explains how to use your free SIP account on Fedora; using ekiga.

FIX: Mplayer DTS support repos — by obsethryl — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

If you have DTS mplayer support issues and you want to use both livna and freshrpms repositories, follow the instructions here, else you will be having dependency problems. Use of these instructions is your exclusive responsibility.

Improve Fonts in Fedora — by Walter Francis — last modified Jan 10, 2010 06:12 PM

Fedora ships with a reasonable configuration for most users, however, some tweaks can be applied if you're using an LCD. Additional improvements to font rendering can also be applied if you wish to enable a patent encumbered font renderer. The method to do each of these, separately, are outlined below. I suggest doing both to maximize your font appearance! In addition to these font rendering changes, there is also information for adding additional fonts to Fedora in the sections following. Please note that some suggested changes in this document can be very subjective based on individual preferences, hardware used, etc. The Troubleshooting section goes into some more detail in this regard and should be considered before making changes.

Installing Mplayer 32bit on x86_64 — by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

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Installing Skype — by daMaestro — last modified Feb 28, 2010 03:19 PM

This howto covers setting up the skype repo and installing skype.

Installing Win32 Codecs — by daMaestro — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

This howto covers installing the windows media codecs for use on Fedora.

LightScribe for Linux — by Corwyn — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

this How-to shows how to download and install the LaCie 4L LightScribe Labeler for Linux.

Non-free plugins for GStreamer — by jpmahowald — last modified Dec 02, 2009 01:07 PM

GStreamer is a multimedia framework used by many media players including rhythmbox, banshee, totem, listen, exaile and others. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included with GStreamer by default. You can add support for mp3 and other formats by installing an add-on package from the third party repository rpm.livna.org

PulseAudio fixes and workarounds — by Dennis Johnson — last modified Feb 23, 2010 02:30 PM

A collection of fixes and work-arounds for PulseAudio: This page has hints for if you are having some sound, but it is choppy, skips - or is too quiet.

Totem-Xine movie player supporting video/audio non free. — by crash — last modified Nov 15, 2008 04:32 PM

Totem-xine is a simple but powerfull movie player, this version is in RPMFusion repo, and is linked against xine-lib unlike Fedora totem package, which is linked against gstreamer. Support for DVD playing will also be added.

VideoLAN Client (VLC) — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

VideoLAN Client is a powerful open source media player. VLC will play all the most common audio and video formats, as well as most of the not so common ones. Due to legal issues with some of these non-free formats, VLC is not included in Fedora itself. However, you can get VLC from third party repository rpm.livna.org.

XMMS - a music and MP3 player — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

XMMS is a lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in XMMS by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org