Multimedia
Here are all the programs to enjoy multimedia under Linux.
Audio Player
The Beep Media Player (BMP) is an audio player for several audio formats like MP3 oder Ogg Vorbis. BMP is a fork of XMMS that has not been actively developed lately, whereas XMMS has already been a clone of popular Winamp. Thus, you can also take most of the Winamp skins and reuse it.
Audio Ripper & Encoder
Grip is a frontend for all the common rippers and encoders running on the console, but it is very comfortable to use Grip instead. After the configuration (e.g. the encoding format like MP3 or Ogg-Vorbis) you inserts an Audio-CD, connects with a click to the CDDB-server to get the track names and such. You can then choose the tracks and Grip does it. Be careful with this behavior since it may be illegal in your country.
Video Player
MPlayer is one of the fastest video-player available for Linux, it supports a multitude of video- (eg.: MPEG1-4, XVID) and audio-formats with subtitels and several audio languages and you can also encode your films; and MPlayer is very stable. MPlayer supports a lot of libs to display the video on your screen, you can even use the plain console!
CD/DVD Writing
K3B is a nice cd-writing program that uses the functionality of several other programs like cdrecord in a simple user interface. It supports a variety of features of burning audio-, data-, mixed-CDs and -DVDs. For example it supports CD-text, cloning, overburning, BurnFree, drag'n'drop, writing and reading ISO-images and many more.
