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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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23 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz Handbook (en)</font></h1>
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30 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">Multimedia</font></h2>
32 <ul>
33 <li><a href="#intro">SliTaz sound and video.</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#config">Configure the sound card.</a></li>
35 <li><a href="#alsamixer">Alsamixer</a> - Mixer.</li>
36 <li><a href="#alsaplayer">Alsaplayer</a> - Audio Player.</li>
37 <li><a href="#asunder">Asunder</a> - Audio CD Ripper.</li>
38 <li><a href="#xine">Xine</a> - Multimedia Player.</li>
39 <li><a href="#mpg123">mpg123</a> - Command line audio player.</li>
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42 <a name="intro"></a>
43 <h3>SliTaz sound and video</h3>
44 <p>
45 SliTaz LiveCD mode provides sound support, but no video player, however you can watch YouTube by installing
46 the <code>get-flash-plugin</code> package. To watch videos you can use Xine, it supports most formats such
47 as avi, mov, mpeg etc, note Xine can also act as an audio player. At the sound level, you have a mixer
48 (alsamixer) and audio player (alsaplayer), both installed by default on standard CD. SliTaz also provides
49 tools to configure your sound card.
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52 <a name="config"></a>
53 <h3>Configure the sound card</h3>
54 <p>
55 In LiveCD mode SliTaz automatically configures the sound card by launching a dialog, in most cases the sound
56 card is instantly recognized and you just press ENTER to continue to login and have your sound working.
57 However, sometimes your card is not recognized at startup or simply not supported. Before throwing in the
58 towel, you can try to manually configure your card by asking for help on the discussion list or on the
59 hardware support forum.
60 </p>
61 <h4>Soundconf</h4>
62 <p>
63 To configure or reconfigure a sound card, SliTaz provides a script (<code>soundconf</code>), this utility
64 is used at startup and doesn't pose any questions, supports the right modules and automatically configures
65 <code>/etc/rsS.conf</code> so that the right driver is loaded on each start. Soundconf will also
66 automatically adjust volume levels, you can change the settings later through the mixer and
67 <code>alsactl</code>. To start the sound configuration interface, you must have administrator priviledges
68 and type:
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70 <pre>
71 # soundconf
72 </pre>
73 <h4>Alsactl</h4>
74 <p>
75 Alsactl controls <code>alsa</code> and can store settings or restore sound for example, to retain
76 preferences for each start. When configuring sound with soundconf, volumes are automatically adjusted, you
77 can use <code>alsamixer</code> as <em>root</em> to change the values and then launch <code>alsactl</code>
78 to store the configuration:
79 </p>
80 <pre>
81 # alsactl store
82 </pre>
83 <p>
84 To restore the configuration, you can use the <code>alsactl restore</code> command or to restore your
85 preferences at each startup you can edit /etc/init.d/local.sh with your favorite text editor or simply
86 'echo' the changes:
87 </p>
88 <pre>
89 # echo 'alsactl restore' > /etc/init.d/local.sh
90 </pre>
92 <a name="alsamixer"></a>
93 <h3>Alsamixer</h3>
94 <p>
95 Alsamixer is the official mixer of the Alsa project. It is simple and effective and can be run from the
96 menu or directly from a terminal. The volumes can be regulated with the up/down arrows or muted using
97 the <code>m</code> key. To start from a Linux terminal:
98 </p>
99 <pre>
100 $ alsamixer
101 </pre>
103 <a name="alsaplayer"></a>
104 <h3>Alsaplayer</h3>
105 <p>
106 The audio player Alsaplayer is designed to be simple, clean and intuitive. Alsaplayer on SliTaz provides
107 support for ogg, mp3 (via libmad) and wav files, playlists and viewers to accompany sound and the ability
108 to adjust pitch and volume. Once launched from the menu just click the play button or load a playlist to
109 start.
110 </p>
112 <a name="asunder"></a>
113 <h3>Asunder - Audio CD Ripper</h3>
114 <p>
115 Asunder retrieves and encodes audio tracks from a CD. The toolkit is simple and easy to use encoding
116 songs into wav, ogg or mp3 (via <code>lame</code> package). It can search CDDB, create a playlist and
117 edit file names. You will find Asunder in the Multimedia category on the menu.
118 </p>
120 <a name="xine"></a>
121 <h3>Xine</h3>
122 <p>
123 Xine is a multimedia project providing various video viewers and audio players. SliTaz provides libraries
124 and a media player contained in the package <code>xine-ui</code>. Xine uses a Xlib interface, a control
125 panel, a right click configuration menu and various plugins. It can play ogg, mp3 and flac audio codecs
126 and mov, avi or mpg video formats. To install xine and it's dependancies:
127 </p>
128 <pre>
129 # tazpkg get-install xine-ui
130 </pre>
131 <p>Official Xine <a href="http://xinehq.de/index.php/home">website</a>
132 </p>
134 <a name="mpg123"></a>
135 <h3><font color="#6c0023">mpg123</font></h3>
136 <p>
137 Mpg123 is a command line audio player and file converter. This means that you can listen to music or
138 convert files from a terminal, to display help (<code>--help</code>).
139 To play a mp3 file, just launch <code>mpg123</code> followed by the name of the audio file:
140 </p>
141 <pre>
142 $ mpg123 sound.mp3
143 </pre>
144 <p>
145 Mpg123 can also encode a file into another format, for example you can convert
146 a wav file into a mp3 file. Example:
147 </p>
148 <pre>
149 $ mpg123 -w sound.mp3 sound.wav
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