en-US/Multimedia.xml

[John J. McDonough]

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commit d5502b96446687e564bce9c03b6ee7495a695238
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 30 14:21:57 2009 -0400

    New information added from Multimedia beat

diff --git a/en-US/Multimedia.xml b/en-US/Multimedia.xml
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 ]>
 
 <section>
-        <title>Multimedia</title>
-        <remark>This beat is located here: <ulink type="http" url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Multimedia">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Multimedia</ulink></remark>
-        <para>
-		TBD
+  <title>Multimedia</title>
+  <remark>This beat is located here: <ulink type="http" url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Multimedia">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Multimedia</ulink></remark>
+
+  <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Freedom</term>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Fedora 11 ships with support for Ogg Vorbis, Theora, FLAC,
+	  and Speex, giving you the freedom to watch or listen to your
+	  media in a free format. Not only are they all open source
+	  but no codec that ships with Fedora contains any harmful
+	  patents or licensing fees.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>MP3 and Flash</term>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Because of patent issues Fedora can not ship with an MP3
+	  decoder, however if you are unable to convert to a patent
+	  free codec, such as Ogg Vorbis, Fluendo offers an MP3
+	  decoder that follows all legal requirements set by the
+	  patent holder. Visit Fluendo's website (<ulink type="http"
+	  url="http://www.fluendo.com/">http://www.fluendo.com/</ulink>)
+	  for more information.
+	</para>
+	<para>
+	  Abode's Flash player is proprietary software and Fedora
+	  recommends installing either <package>swfdec</package> or
+	  <package>gnash</package> from the repositories.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Volume Control</term>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  An updated volume control manager application provides you
+	  with more control over your audio preferences. Better
+	  integrated with PulseAudio, you can now control individual
+	  application inputs and outputs along with the sources and
+	  destinations for the audio.
+	</para>
+	<para>
+	  With the removal of <package>gnome-volume-manager</package>,
+	  you may be left without an obvious way to adjust ALSA sound
+	  levels after an upgrade. If they are set too low, raising
+	  the PulseAudio sound levels may not work acceptably. The way
+	  to deal with this is to install
+	  <package>alsa-utils</package> and run <command>alsamixer
+	  -c0</command> from a shell prompt. To access the recording
+	  channels rather than the playback channels (for instance, to
+	  select which input you wish to record from) run
+	  <command>alsamixer -c0 -Vcapture</command>. The
+	  <package>alsamixer</package> program has a
+	  <package>curses</package> text-based user interface to
+	  adjust sound levels for ALSA devices. Once
+	  <package>alsamixer</package> is running, get help by typing
+	  a question mark.
 	</para>
-    </section>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+  </variablelist>
+    <para>
+      For more information refer to <ulink type="http"
+      url="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia">
+      http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia</ulink>.
+    </para>
+  </section>