[desktop-discuss] How do i get multimedia support in SXDE?

[Thomas Wagner]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:38:10PM +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> I want to use SXDE as my desktop OS at home.
> How do i play multimedia on it? I've seen people playing DVDs and mp3's
> on Solaris Express.

You could have a look at this fine mp3/ogg/flac/... player. It is
a daemon running in the background and several frontends are available.

In the CBE spec-files-extra repository there are *spec files to 
build the software. 

A short introduction how to set up the build environment is
here http://sarine.nl/gmpc-solaris-build (I have to refresh this
doc, but should still work)

You can store your music on a central server and place the soundcard
there or use shout streaming over the net and listen from each client
to your favorite music (client: gmpc for X11/gtk, pitchfork for your
browser and several others, setup n-instances of the daemon mpd and
icecast)

For playing videos I use mplayer from the same repository (spec-files-extra).

Thomas

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