"This project is for the use of the average bloke (yes, you), who would like to further help and promote the use of your favorite free format. The MailOgging is a strategy to get the attention of hardware and software vendors who do not know the Ogg family, do not care about it, or do not know how many people care about it.
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Distribution Release: Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R3
http://www.musix.org.ar –
"...It's a 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition, and all kind of tasks. It contains an enormous collection of free (as in freedom) programs that can replace Windows or Mac OS X..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04827
Read more »How to : Enable Full Multimedia Suport in Ubuntu 7.10.
http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com –
Ubuntu is one of the widely used GNU OS which is considered as Newbie friendly . But still there are few things to work .. Here is a small/quick guide that will let you enable Playback for any type of Audio/Video files.. Since most users get baffled after they fail to play media files. So I thought of posting a guide which will let you play every Media files like DivX,Real Media,AC3,MPEG4 to name a few .. So lets get started .
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K3B - The Easy Way to Burn CDs and DVDs
http://fosswire.com –
K3B is an application that ships in the default KDE packages in most distributions, however it’s a very useful tool that can often be overlooked. K3B is a CD and DVD burning application that makes it easy to burn data, audio and disc images onto writable CDs and DVDs. It is a very mature, stable and fully featured application.
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Improved Ogg Theora coming soon to an Internet near you
http://www.linux.com –
Free software for video is currently in sad shape. The only two widely distributed free video editing programs, Kino and Cinelerra, are nowhere near as capable as competing commercial software
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Fast Forward Again: Amarok 1.4.8 Released!
http://amarok.kde.org –
Amarok Headquarters reports yet again another release of the marvelous Amarok 1.4 'Fast Forward' series. Just like its predecessor, Amarok 1.4.8 fixes a fairly large amount of bugs, and therefore increases stability of Amarok's stable branch of development. Among the major improvements is the resolution of an issue that could, under some circumstances, cause a complete lockup during dynamic playback. Last.fm metadata fetching now also works with xine 1.1.8 and we made sure you can now also use your brand new iPods with your favourite music player. And now the team can get back to work on Amarok 2, getting their hands dirty to bring Amarok 2 to you as soon as humanly possible! :)
Read more »HTML5 Working Group Rejects Open Media Formats
http://www.sitepoint.com –
HTML5 spec is expected to introduce new audio and video capabilities into the HTML language. However, it seems that Nokia and Apple have succeeded in removing Ogg Vorbis and Theora support from the current draft which decision has caused lots of heated political discussion. Some critics claim that the decision is mostly based on reluctance to back a standard that has no provision for including DRM, while others have mentioned potential patent uncertainties as the main reason not to back Ogg Vorbis and Theora.
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Miro: Free Software goes Internet TV!
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"By now many of you might have heard of Joost, the extremely hyped “Internet-TV”-application by Niklas Zenström, author of Skype and Kazaa. What you might not know is that there is a free open-source alternative. It’s name.. is Miro..."
Read more »FOSS Codecs For Online Video
http://wiki.transmission.cc –
The good folks at EngageMedia have written a nice research paper about the availability and uptake of free software codecs.
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Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released
http://www.heise.de –
Six years after the project was launched, developers at the Xiph.Org Foundation have released a beta version of the free video codec called Ogg Theora. The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded from the developer website.
Read more »A green light for free-software defined radio?
http://lwn.net –
Playing around with radio-frequency transmission and reception used to be restricted to those of us with hardware skills. That has been changing for some years, though, as processors get faster and software techniques advance; now, many radio transmitters and receivers are built with simple (but flexible) hardware.
Read more »Announcing Miro
http://www.getmiro.com –
"...As always, we are a non-profit organization and we build this software because we think there’s a chance to bring television online in a way that’s more open and accessible than ever. Companies are battling desperately to control video, monopolize users, and build proprietary distribution systems. It’s a dangerous direction for the future of media."""
Read more »Setting up a Freebsd Multimedia Desktop
http://www.raiden.net –
Of all the many wonderful and free operating systems out there, few can begin to meet or surpass the quality, stability, and structured operation of FreeBSD. That’s why I like it so much and have used it for years.
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Music Player Daemon rocks your net
http://www.linux.com –
The Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a very different, and very cool, way to play back music online. Unlike typical music-playing applications, MPD does not have a graphical (or even command-line) interface. Instead, a variety of clients interact with MPD over the network.
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Jack Quickstart Guide
http://www.64studio.com –
This is a user-friendly tutorial by Nate Figlar for the Jack sound server, an essential tool for free software multimedia production. It's been written with the 64 Studio distro in mind, but is generic enough to be relevant to any desktop distro with sound applications.
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