492 Part III (Make a web site) . Choosing and Installing a
492 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Multimedia Bootables Some bootable Linuxes are tailored specifically to let you play movies, music, and images. Most let you play whatever content you have on your hard disk or can point to from the Internet. Many run in a small enough amount of memory to let you remove the bootable DVD or CD containing Linux and insert your own content (such as a music CD or movie DVD) to play. MoviX2 With MoviX2 (http://movix.sourceforge.net), you run a multimedia player that disregards the operating systems (Windows, Linux, or otherwise) installed on your system. Because MoviX2 is small enough to run in your system memory, after it has booted you can remove it and insert the CD or DVD containing the content you want to run. With MoviX2, you can play: . Videos You can play video from many different formats, including DivX/XVID, MPEG 1 and 2, and MPEG 4. So that MoviX2 can be freely distributed, it does not include the capability to play most DVD movies. The libdvdcss library, needed to decrypt DVD movies (even if only for playback), has been the subject of legal suits. Although this library is available on the Internet, no legitimate Linux systems in the U.S. distribute this library, and using it may be illegal. You should research this issue yourself if you plan to add libdvdcss to MoviX2 or any other Linux distribution that includes MPlayer or xine media players. . Music Audio files in AVI, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and other formats can be played. . Images You can run a slide show using the Linux Frame Buffer Image (fbi) viewer that displays images in JPEG, PNG, and a variety of other image formats. The MoviX2 player itself doesn t include any video, music, or images for you to play. Instead, it lets you choose the location of your content. Here are the possibilities, depending on what is available from your computer: . DVDs If you have a DVD drive on your computer, you can play supported content from there. (As previously stated, that doesn t include most commercial movies, by default.) . VCDs and SVCD These are video formats that can be put on standard CDs. . Audio CDs Standard music CDs (including AVI, MP3, and other formats) can be played. . Hard disk files Any supported content on the local hard disk can also be played from MoviX2. Like KNOPPIX, MoviX2 detects hard disk partitions and then mounts them as you request files from those partitions. The mounts are done read-only, by default, so you can play your content without any risk of deleting or otherwise damaging it. Caution
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