Category Archives: Graphics and Multimedia
Graphics Applications
Ubuntu includes a wide range of graphics and multimedia applications, including simple image viewers such as GwenView, sophisticated image manipulation programs like GIMP, music and CD players like Rhythmbox, and TV viewers like Totem. Several helpful Linux multimedia sites are listed in Table. … Continue reading
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GStreamer
Many GNOME-based applications make use of GStreamer, a streaming media framework based on graphs and filters (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org). Using a plug-in structure, GStreamer applications can accommodate a wide variety of media types: The Totem video player uses GStreamer to play DVDs, … Continue reading
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Multimedia support
A listing of popular multimedia codecs available is shown in Table Of particular interest may be the liba52, faad2, and lame codecs for sound decoding, as well as the xvidcore, x264, libdvdcss, and libdvbpsi for video decoding. Ubuntu provides a … Continue reading
X Window System Graphic Programs
KDE Graphics Tools The KDE desktop features the same variety of graphics tools found on the GNOME desktop. Many are available from the Ubuntu main repository. Most do not require a full installation of the KDE desktop. The KSnapshot program … Continue reading
GNOME Graphics Tools
GNOME features several powerful and easy-to-use graphic tools. The gThumb application is an image viewer and browser that lets you browse images using thumbnails, display them, and organize them into catalogs for easy reference. The Eye of Gnome is the … Continue reading
