Το Fedora Core περιέχει εφαρμογές για διάφορες λειτουργίες πολυμέσων, μεταξύ άλλων αναπαραγωγή, ηχογράφηση και επεξεργασία. Επιπλέον πακέτα είναι διαθέσιμα από το αποθετήριο Fedora Extras. Για επιπλέον πληροφορίες σχετικά με τα πολυμέσα στο Fedora, δείτε την ενότητα Πολυμέσα του ιστοχώρου του έργου Fedora:
The default installation of Fedora Core includes Rhythmbox, Totem, and Helix Player for media playback. The Fedora Core and Fedora Extras repositories include many other popular programs such as the XMMS player and KDE's amaroK. Both GNOME and KDE have a selection of players that can be used with a variety of formats. Third parties may offer additional programs to handle other formats.
Fedora Core also takes full advantage of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) sound system. Many programs can play sound simultaneously, which was once difficult on Linux systems. When all multimedia software is configured to use ALSA for sound support, this limitation disappears. For more information about ALSA, visit the project website at http://www.alsa-project.org/. Users may still experience issues when multiple users log into the system. Depending upon hardware and software configurations, multiple users may not be able to use the sound hardware simultaneously.
Fedora includes complete support for the Ogg media container format and the Vorbis audio, Theora video, Speex audio and FLAC lossless audio formats. These freely-distributable formats are not encumbered by patent or license restrictions. They provide powerful and flexible alternatives to more popular, restricted formats. The Fedora Project encourages the use of open source formats in place of restricted ones. For more information on these formats and how to use them, refer to the Xiph.Org Foundation's web site at http://www.xiph.org/.
Τα Fedora Core και Fedora Extras δε μπορούν να παρέχουν υποστήριξη για αναπαραγωγή MP3 ή βίντεο DVD ή ηχογράφηση. Οι μορφές MP3 είναι πατενταρισμένες και οι κάτοχοι των πατεντών δεν έχουν δώσει τις απαραίτητες άδειες χρήσης. Οι μορφές βίντεο DVD είναι πατενταρισμένες και εφοδιασμένες με ένα σχήμα κρυπτογράφησης. Οι κάτοχοι των πατεντών δεν έχουν δώσει τις απαραίτητες άδειες χρήσης και ο κώδικας που απαιτείται για αποκρυπτογράφηση δίσκων κρυπτογραφημένων κατά CSS μπορεί να καταπατά το Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ένα νόμο πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας των ΗΠΑ. Το Fedora επίσης αποκλείει άλλο λογισμικό πολυμέσων λόγω περιορισμών από πατέντες, πνευματικά δικαιώματα ή άδειες χρήσης, όπως το Adobe Flash Player και το Real Media Player. Για περισσότερα για αυτό το θέμα, παρακαλούμε ανατρέξτε στο http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems.
While other MP3 options may be available for Fedora, Fluendo now offers an MP3 plugin for GStreamer that is properly licensed for end users. This plugin will enable MP3 support in applications that use the GStreamer framework as a backend. We are still unable to distribute this plugin in Fedora for licensing reasons, but this plugin offers a new solution for an old problem. For more information, visit Fluendo's website at http://www.fluendo.com/.
Fedora Core and Extras include a variety of tools for easily mastering and burning CDs and DVDs. GNOME users can burn directly from the Nautilus file manager, or choose the gnomebaker
or graveman
packages from Fedora Extras, or the older xcdroast
package from Fedora Core. KDE users can use the robust k3b
package, available in Fedora Extras, for these tasks. Console tools include cdrecord
, readcd
, mkisofs
and other popular applications.
You can use Fedora to create and play back screencasts, which are recorded desktop sessions, using open technologies. Fedora Extras includes istanbul
, which creates screencasts using the Theora video format. These videos can be played back using one of several players included in Fedora Core. This is the preferred way to submit screencasts to the Fedora Project for either developer or end-user use. For a more comprehensive how-to, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScreenCasting.
Most of the media players in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras support the use of plugins to add support for additional media formats and sound output systems. Some use powerful backends, like the gstreamer
package, to handle media format support and sound output. Fedora Core and Fedora Extras offer plugin packages for these backends and for individual applications. Third parties may provide additional plugins to add even greater capabilities.