more clients for mpd.

2013-12-26 1 min read Fedora Linux

Here are some more clients that you can use with mpd.

sudo yum install mpd mpc qmpdclient.x86_64 gmpc.x86_64 sonata.x86_64

mpd is ::

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for
playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound
files (e.g., OGG, MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV) and can be controlled remotely via its
network protocol. It can be used as a desktop music player, but is also great
for streaming music to a stereo system over a local network. There are many
GUI and command-line applications to choose from that act as a front-end for
browsing and playing your MPD music collection.
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mplayer – find all the installed codes for audio and video

2011-11-09 2 min read Fedora Linux

Some time back, I was trying to find out all the codecs that are installed for my mplayer. These could be the ones that came with mplayer or the ones that I downloaded from the site and installed in the various directories.

I could not find a direct way to do this, until I found this:

mplayer -ac help -vc help

And here is the output of the command:

Speed up mkat with no md5sum for the files.

2010-09-02 1 min read Linux

mkat details:

mkat is a set of <a class="zem_slink" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line tools to burn, catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Data" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data CD/<a class="zem_slink" title="DVD" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">DVD, <a class="zem_slink" title="Compact Disc" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc">audio CDs and then search the catalog <a class="zem_slink" title="Database" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database, e.g. check whether you have a certain file or audio CD in your collection. Tags can be used to categorize CDs, e.g. <a class="zem_slink" title="Comedy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy">comedy, <a class="zem_slink" title="Drama" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama">drama, etc. Audio CD support is very rudimentary though.
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Play media files in fedora.

2010-06-06 1 min read Linux

Found <a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100206">here .<div class="smallfont">

Media (DVD, web content, video & audio) playback in Fedora

Note: This howto has been transferred to my blog here. (Instructions for Fedora 7+ can be found here)

Hello,
There have been many complaints about media not working in Fedora – MP3s, DVDs, etc. So, I decided to make this guide to help out – By installing a few packages, you can get the codecs for these media or media formats, and solve the problem.

Auto Adjust Photo color and contrast in Windows, Mac and Linux.

2010-05-19 1 min read Photo

<a href="http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html" target="_blank">Auto Adjust Photo is a tool that is very helpful if you are looking at quickly adjusting the photo. This tool does a good job of automatically doing color correction. Here is example:

There is definately a scope of improvement in the processed photo, but if you have a couple of hundred photo’s and you can get this effect in one liner then nothing like it. Here’s the one liner

Play video in Fedora.

2009-10-03 3 min read Linux

Found <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28153">here.<div class="smallfont">

How to multimedia xmms, rythmbox, mplayer, video, etc.

Lack of multimedia in fedora is one of my major complaints. This is intended for our newbies that have problems setup multimedia for mp3 music and dvd playback. Some commands are for fedora core 3, 4 and 5.

UPDATE: I started using <a href="http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">mplayer. Make sure you download the 6 packages tchung is listing. This is my personal <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53335" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">yum installation of mplayer which can be compare to windows media player. Totem will also meet your needs.