Here are two plug-ins for Netscape (Graphic web design) that come
Here are two plug-ins for Netscape that come with Red Hat Linux and allow you to play some types of multimedia content that you may not otherwise be able to play in Linux. Shockwave Flash Player This plug-in plays multimedia FutureSplash content created by Flash 3 authoring software from Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/). It also plays Shockwave Flash multimedia content. Flash content can contain animation, vector graphics, sound, and interactive interfaces. Plugger This is a streaming multimedia plug-in for Netscape on UNIX platforms. On the back end of Plugger are applications such as Xanim, MpegTV, and several other applications that actually process the data. (In other words, these other applications need to be installed so that Plugger can use them to provide the features you select.) Another plug-in you should consider installing is the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in. You can get it by installing the acroread. (You can use the rpmfind acroread command to locate a copy of the acroread package from the Internet.) Installing a plug-in often means simply copying the plug-in file to the directory where Netscape will find it. On my system the location is the /usr/lib/netscape/plugins directory. The best way to find this location, as well as a list of other plug-ins that are already installed, is to open Netscape and then choose Help About Plug-ins. Figure 8-9 shows what this listing looks like after I installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in. Figure 8-9: Find what plug-ins are installed in Netscape using Help @@> About Plug-ins. The listing of plug-ins shows the name of the plug-in, the MIME type of the content it can play, and the filename extensions on the files it can play. Recording Music CDs Writable CD-ROM drives are fast becoming a standard device on computers. Where once you had to settle for a floppy disk (1.44MB) or a Zip disk (100MB) to store personal data, a CD-ROM burner lets you store more than 600MB of data in a format that can be exchanged with most computers. On top of that, you can create CD music disks! Both graphical and command-line tools exist for creating CDs in Red Hat Linux. The cdrecord command lets you create audio and data CDs from the command line. The xcdroast provides a graphical interface. Both tools let you write to CD-Recordable (CD-R) and CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drives. The cdrecord command and xcdroast window are described in the next section of this chapter. Only SCSI CD-ROM drives can be used to create CDs in Linux with the current tools. If you have an IDE writable CD-ROM, however, don t despair. With a bit of extra configuration, you can set up your drive for
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