On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Raj shekhar wrote: > in infinite wisdom Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay spoke thus on 01/20/06 11:20: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Monster wrote: >> >>> How to run video files to which application thay hv to >>> be associated as i hv tried with grip, kmid its not >>> working can any one tell me to which to associate and >>> if there any other application to with and how to run >>> MP3 also... >> >> >> It has been a long time since I posted this link but here goes: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - do read this >> *before* posting the questions. > > Multimedia is still a black art in linux - take for example audio .. > which one to use- esd ? osd ? oss ? arts ? (did I miss a few ?) As > someone who figured out how to use the mplayer just last year, I think > the question is quite relevant and the ESR howto does not answer his > query in any way. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/25/104320/439 > >
esd, oss, arts are all sound daemons. (I don't know if osd is a sound daemon). For example arts is lovely if you make all applications use arts as the sound daemon and then you get the same features of Windows into LInux Desktop. rrs -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
