Multimedia

''obviously a draft, but there's no such page and users seem to expect it.'' == Playing multimedia == The [[Browse]] web browser activity can play video and audio links (using the [[Totem plugin]]). That is the OLPC default "media player". === Supported formats === To see what formats Browse supports, type <tt>about:plugins</tt> in its location field and press the enter key. (If you don't see its location field, click its "Browse" menu.) The primary open unrestricted file format for audio and video files is [OGG]. So if you see a link to a <tt>.ogg</tt> file, your XO can probably play it. This is a "container" format for many different ways of compressing files. The standard OLPC system software can understand some but not all of these. ''What happens with an unsupported codec in a .ogg file?? - need link'' === What about MP3 files? === Note that the standard OLPC software does not support common-but-restricted media file formats such as .mp3. See [[Restricted Formats]] for an explanation why. However, it (should) be easy to add support for these, at the risk of violating software patents. See [[GStreamer#MP3]]. === Test === ''Need a link to good sample files'' ''Maybe [[Data file formats]]'' should have a link to a sample of each kind. == Other media players == There is a [[Jukebox]] audio/video player activity. Besides running Totem as a browser plug-in, you can also start it from the [[Terminal Activity]]. You can install and run various other media players for [[Linux]] such as [[XMMS]], see [[:Category:Linux software]]. None of these are [[Sugar]] activities, so they do not interact with files in your [[Journal]]. == Getting multimedia == There are [[collections]] that have audio and video files that you can download to your laptop and then access through the [[Library]]. Wikipedia Commons has lots of files in .OGG format. Also See [[Content repositories]] ?? == Flash == Flash is an animation format that can also incorporate music and video. The OLPC system software comes with the [[Gnash]] browser plug-in which has some support for Flash. [[Category:Support]] [[Category:Media]]