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Jun 30, 2009Voice over IP on the Internet gives communication a personal touch, but it takes applications like Cheese and WebcamStudio to exploit the creative potential of Internet telephony.
more »MTP in Linux Getting your MTP devices working on Linux
Jun 30, 2009Just because the MTP protocol is promoted by Microsoft doesn't mean you can't get music onto your MTP devices.
more »Google Considerations: OGG Theora or H.264?
Jun 16, 2009An employee of Google has expressed himself regarding the disadvantages of OGG Theora in comparison with H.264 in a discussion on the mailing list of the web hypertext application technology working group.
more »Fast Forward: VLC 1.0.0 Media Player RC1
May 16, 2009May 13 VideoLAN announced and made ready for download the release candidate of its VLC Media Player 1.0. The new version supports more codecs and provides numerous enhancements.
more »Impressive: The new XBMC Media Center
May 08, 2009Version 9.04 of the multi-platform XBMC Media Center is released. Codenamed Babylon, the software comes with massive and in part, impressive changes.
more »DVD Menus Under Control: QDVD-Author New Version 1.8.0
May 04, 2009The DVD authoring software has been released in the new 1.8.0 version that promises to keep complex DVD menus under control.
more »We're Linux! Video Competition Winners Announced
Apr 09, 2009The Linux Foundation has announced the winners of its video competition. With more than one hundred entries, the competition with the sub-title, “We're Linux”, called for videos that showed what Linux actually means to its community.
more »Sun Puts OpenSolaris on Multimedia Course
Mar 30, 2009The free OpenSolaris UNIX derivative from Sun has not exactly been known for its multimedia capabilities. This should soon change.
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