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Hour 21. Multimedia in FreeBSD

Although it is still not nearly up to par with Windows and Macintosh, multimedia support in FreeBSD is getting better. For example, today FreeBSD supports most popular sound cards, and thus can play back MP3s, audio CDs, and so on. In this hour, you will learn:

How to configure sound support in FreeBSD
Various applications available for playing media files in FreeBSD
How to burn (record) CDs in FreeBSD
How to play video files in FreeBSD

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