A preliminary discussion on the media Player under Linux operating system

Preliminary installation

The development of Linux is fast, in a short span of several years, not only laid a solid foundation of the network, has become a powerful support for many servers, but also developed into the desktop field. As a network operating system, although it's hard to get between one o'clock and windows

contend, but its development momentum is not reduced, in the domestic is a vigorous scene.

The meaning of graphical desktop is to be able to take advantage of colorful windows, bring users a sense of closeness, so that people no longer feel unfamiliar, humanized design will trigger people to try Linux enthusiasm, so that more people understand Linux. Xwindows is the open window in Linux, regardless of its design, after all, this "window" interface to bring a lot of practical, easy-to-use.

With the release of Windows XP, Linux manufacturers are not outdone, have launched their own "desktop" products. These versions have a strong media core, for audio, video support has a great improvement, more bundles of rich applications.

Today, the use of Linux has been basically able to do office, entertainment, Life and a series of activities, although many places are not perfect, but the basic office software, players, games and so on everything, the laboratory just finished the Linux OA Office software topic test, it presents a lot of good products.

Linux audio, video playback software with the performance of the Linux upgrade, more and more, now in Linux want to listen to some music, Mp3 or fancy several blockbusters, whether VCD, DVD, are already a piece of cake, a wide variety of player software with your choice, Some are streamlined, some are powerful, and most support all of the common media formats, almost as much as Windows players. Below, we will introduce several, and you look at Linux in the play world.

Preliminary Installation--

You may be a novice Linux, the first time to set foot on this unknown territory, in use may encounter such a problem, the following is the popular Xteamlinux Chinese version of the test platform for example, first to introduce the common method of multimedia installation.

In Linux, getting, downloading files and Winodws are almost the most common to "executable" and "zipped" files, first to look at the ". RPM" File--the RPM is an executable package. RPM package installation is simpler, the graphical interface of the application in KDE directly double-click to execute it, the system will automatically install, or in the command line state directly to "RPM–IVH *.rpm (file name)" for installation.

In addition, files in compressed format can be seen everywhere, just like zip files in Windows. "*.tar.gz" format of the compression package needs decompression installation, in the Xwindows also have the ability to extract directly, click on the execution can be decompression, installation. "Tar" format is packaged, "GZ" is compressed, Linux for group files compression is through the two processes at the same time. Use the TAR–XZVF *.tar.gz (file name) under the command line to unlock the two layer directly. After you unpack the files, you probably need to do other installation procedures.

The most troublesome is "compiling". Usually in a heap of unpacked files, will contain "Install, configure" or "README" and so on similar instructions, installation files, in short, it is best to follow the installation instructions (vi Readme |more, cat Readme |more view content), For different packages, the way is not exactly the same. If you really do not understand, or find a Linux helper to do it, you do not necessarily know where the file, usually the steps are: "./configure", "make", "Make Install", "made clean" and so on, the specific meaning is not detailed.

Overall, Linux under the majority of multimedia software is fully open, can be free to obtain, from the structure of relatively simple, but some places appear to be relatively secured, from the installation of ease of use, it seems too simplistic, not conducive to ordinary users directly. In addition, because there is no special installation program control (more no Installation Interface), are "untied can be used", so the selection of all software installed in the desktop will not automatically generate shortcut icon, you need to go to the directory to search some implementation. Similarly, uninstall operations can not be automatically completed, can only be manually deleted, and for some copy of the plug-in software, may leave a difficult to find the junk file can not be deleted.

Background: The software platform of this special test is the Xteamlinux 4.0 standard version provided by Xteam (China) Software Technology Co., Ltd. This version uses the 2.4.6 kernel, has the entire graphical installation interface, can identify the mainstream graphics card, sound card and so on hardware equipment characteristic. In the entertainment function, the system has built-in RealPlayer, CD, VCD player and other multimedia playback software, while supporting the operation of quake, civilization and other large-scale games. KOffice Office suites are available for Office applications. At the same time, this version also supports the establishment of DNS, E-Mail, firewall, proxy server and other network services. For desktop applications and departmental enterprise applications, is a good choice.