Multimedia

Anders Johansson

The AudioCD IO slave uses the /dev/sg files to communicate with your SCSI cd reader. Your user needs to have read and write access to the sg device mapped to your cd. You can accomplish this by putting the user who should be allowed to use the cd in the group "disk" (see documentation for how to do this).

Lew Wolfgang

Just us it like this:

mpg123 -s something.mpg >something.cdr  
    

The file format is not .wav, but in the format that may be burned directly by cdrecord if you do this:

cdrecord -v speed=S dev=X,Y,Z -swab -pad -audio *.cdr
    

Substitute the speed for your burner/cdrs and your own X,Y,Z config obtained by runnign cdrecord -scanbus. This will burn all the .cdr files in the directory that you're sitting in.

Keith Winston

This is the script I use, just put the mp3 files in the ~/burn/data directory.

#!/bin/bash

# This is a CD-R script for burning mp3 files directly to CD.
# The mpg123 program converts mp3s to cdr format, and cdrecord burns
# the tracks on the CD.
#

for I in /home/foo/burn/data/*.mp3
do
    mpg123  --cdr - "$I" | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -audio -pad -v -speed=2
-nofix -
done
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -fix

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There is some confusion over Macromedia players and Linux. There are two media players that Macromedia makes and to quote Macromedia : http://www.macromedia.com/support/shockwave/ts/documents/playerfaq.htm#4

The Shockwave player is not available for Linux. Most of the annoying ads are in Flash and should be playable from Linux. You can get the latest player at http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/

Macromedia has confused the issue by not giving Shockwave and Flash unique file extension. It refers to swf files as Shockwave Flash files. So it is not known at a glance which player is needed to play the file.

If you need the Shockwave player then you will have to purchase CodeWeaver's Crossover Office product (assuming you have an Intel CPU) it is available at: http://www.codeweavers.com/

Crossover Office will also allow Intel based boxes to play Apple Qucktime and Microsoft Office viewers in your web browser so it might be worth buying to meet those needs.