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| author | Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Fri Jun 06 22:42:57 2008 +0000 (2008-06-06) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/en/doc/handbook/multimedia.html Fri Jun 06 22:42:57 2008 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ 1.4 +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 1.5 + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 1.6 +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 1.7 +<head> 1.8 + <title>SliTaz Handbook (en) - Template</title> 1.9 + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 1.10 + <meta name="description" content="slitaz English handbook" /> 1.11 + <meta name="expires" content="never" /> 1.12 + <meta name="modified" content="2008-02-26 18:30:00" /> 1.13 + <meta name="publisher" content="www.slitaz.org" /> 1.14 + <meta name="author" content="Christophe Lincoln"/> 1.15 + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> 1.16 + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="book.css" /> 1.17 +</head> 1.18 +<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 1.19 + 1.20 +<!-- Header and quick navigation --> 1.21 +<div id="header"> 1.22 +<div align="right" id="quicknav"> 1.23 + <a name="top"></a> 1.24 + <a href="index.html">Table of contents</a> 1.25 +</div> 1.26 +<h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1> 1.27 +</div> 1.28 + 1.29 +<!-- Content. --> 1.30 +<div id="content"> 1.31 +<div class="content-right"></div> 1.32 + 1.33 +<h2><font color="#DF8F06">Multimedia</font></h2> 1.34 + 1.35 +<ul> 1.36 + <li><a href="#intro">SliTaz sound and video.</a></li> 1.37 + <li><a href="#config">Configure the sound card.</a></li> 1.38 + <li><a href="#alsamixer">Alsamixer</a> - Mixer.</li> 1.39 + <li><a href="#alsaplayer">Alsaplayer</a> - Audio Player.</li> 1.40 + <li><a href="#asunder">Asunder</a> - Audio CD Ripper.</li> 1.41 + <li><a href="#xine">Xine</a> - Multimedia Player.</li> 1.42 + <li><a href="#mpg123">mpg123</a> - Command line audio player.</li> 1.43 +</ul> 1.44 + 1.45 +<a name="intro"></a> 1.46 +<h3>SliTaz sound and video</h3> 1.47 +<p> 1.48 +SliTaz LiveCD mode provides sound support, but no video player, however you can watch YouTube by installing 1.49 +the <code>get-flash-plugin</code> package. To watch videos you can use Xine, it supports most formats such 1.50 +as avi, mov, mpeg etc, note Xine can also act as an audio player. At the sound level, you have a mixer 1.51 +(alsamixer) and audio player (alsaplayer), both installed by default on standard CD. SliTaz also provides 1.52 +tools to configure your sound card. 1.53 +</p> 1.54 + 1.55 +<a name="config"></a> 1.56 +<h3>Configure the sound card</h3> 1.57 +<p> 1.58 +In LiveCD mode SliTaz automatically configures the sound card by launching a dialog, in most cases the sound 1.59 +card is instantly recognized and you just press ENTER to continue to login and have your sound working. 1.60 +However, sometimes your card is not recognized at startup or simply not supported. Before throwing in the 1.61 +towel, you can try to manually configure your card by asking for help on the discussion list or on the 1.62 +hardware support forum. 1.63 +</p> 1.64 +<h4>Soundconf</h4> 1.65 +<p> 1.66 +To configure or reconfigure a sound card, SliTaz provides a script (<code>soundconf</code>), this utility 1.67 +is used at startup and doesn't pose any questions, supports the right modules and automatically configures 1.68 +<code>/etc/rsS.conf</code> so that the right driver is loaded on each start. Soundconf will also 1.69 +automatically adjust volume levels, you can change the settings later through the mixer and 1.70 +<code>alsactl</code>. To start the sound configuration interface, you must have administrator priviledges 1.71 +and type: 1.72 +</p> 1.73 +<pre> 1.74 + # soundconf 1.75 +</pre> 1.76 +<h4>Alsactl</h4> 1.77 +<p> 1.78 +Alsactl controls <code>alsa</code> and can store settings or restore sound for example, to retain 1.79 +preferences for each start. When configuring sound with soundconf, volumes are automatically adjusted, you 1.80 +can use <code>alsamixer</code> as <em>root</em> to change the values and then launch <code>alsactl</code> 1.81 +to store the configuration: 1.82 +</p> 1.83 +<pre> 1.84 + # alsactl store 1.85 +</pre> 1.86 +<p> 1.87 +To restore the configuration, you can use the <code>alsactl restore</code> command or to restore your 1.88 +preferences at each startup you can edit /etc/init.d/local.sh with your favorite text editor or simply 1.89 +'echo' the changes: 1.90 +</p> 1.91 +<pre> 1.92 + # echo 'alsactl restore' > /etc/init.d/local.sh 1.93 +</pre> 1.94 + 1.95 +<a name="alsamixer"></a> 1.96 +<h3>Alsamixer</h3> 1.97 +<p> 1.98 +Alsamixer is the official mixer of the Alsa project. It is simple and effective and can be run from the 1.99 +menu or directly from a terminal. The volumes can be regulated with the up/down arrows or muted using 1.100 +the <code>m</code> key. To start from a Linux terminal: 1.101 +</p> 1.102 +<pre> 1.103 + $ alsamixer 1.104 +</pre> 1.105 + 1.106 +<a name="alsaplayer"></a> 1.107 +<h3>Alsaplayer</h3> 1.108 +<p> 1.109 +The audio player Alsaplayer is designed to be simple, clean and intuitive. Alsaplayer on SliTaz provides 1.110 +support for ogg, mp3 (via libmad) and wav files, playlists and viewers to accompany sound and the ability 1.111 +to adjust pitch and volume. Once launched from the menu just click the play button or load a playlist to 1.112 +start. 1.113 +</p> 1.114 + 1.115 +<a name="asunder"></a> 1.116 +<h3>Asunder - Audio CD Ripper</h3> 1.117 +<p> 1.118 +Asunder retrieves and encodes audio tracks from a CD. The toolkit is simple and easy to use encoding 1.119 +songs into wav, ogg or mp3 (via <code>lame</code> package). It can search CDDB, create a playlist and 1.120 +edit file names. You will find Asunder in the Multimedia category on the menu. 1.121 +</p> 1.122 + 1.123 +<a name="xine"></a> 1.124 +<h3>Xine</h3> 1.125 +<p> 1.126 +Xine is a multimedia project providing various video viewers and audio players. SliTaz provides libraries 1.127 +and a media player contained in the package <code>xine-ui</code>. Xine uses a Xlib interface, a control 1.128 +panel, a right click configuration menu and various plugins. It can play ogg, mp3 and flac audio codecs 1.129 +and mov, avi or mpg video formats. To install xine and it's dependancies: 1.130 +</p> 1.131 +<pre> 1.132 + # tazpkg get-install xine-ui 1.133 +</pre> 1.134 +<p>Official Xine <a href="http://xinehq.de/index.php/home">website</a> 1.135 +</p> 1.136 + 1.137 +<a name="mpg123"></a> 1.138 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">mpg123</font></h3> 1.139 +<p> 1.140 +Mpg123 is a command line audio player and file converter. This means that you can listen to music or 1.141 +convert files from a terminal, to display help (<code>--help</code>). 1.142 +To play a mp3 file, just launch <code>mpg123</code> followed by the name of the audio file: 1.143 +</p> 1.144 +<pre> 1.145 + $ mpg123 sound.mp3 1.146 +</pre> 1.147 +<p> 1.148 +Mpg123 can also encode a file into another format, for example you can convert 1.149 +a wav file into a mp3 file. 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