Online music and videos

A great deal of music and videos are available from the Internet. How you watch or listen online depends on how the provider of the music and videos has made them available.

Watch videos in a web browser

Many videos available on the Internet can be played from within your web browser. However, many of these require an additional browser plugin to be installed first.

The plugins you require depend on the format of the videos you would like to watch. A short list of plugins available for the default Firefox Web Browser is given below:

  • For the Totem Xine plugin, the totem-mozilla plugin will be ready to use in a default Xubuntu installation.

  • For the Mplayer plugin, install the mozilla-mplayer package from the “Multiverse” repository.

  • For the Flash plugin, install the flashplugin-nonfree package from the “Multiverse” repository. See the Flash multimedia plugin portion of the Bab 7, Internet page for more information.

For help on installing additional software, see Bab 11, Menambah, Menghapus dan Memutakhirkan Aplikasi.

Restart Firefox to make the newly-installed plugins available.

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Firefox can also install this plugin automatically the first time you attempt to view Flash content, just follow the instructions presented within Firefox.

Listen to online audio streams

You can listen to streaming audio from the Internet. This can be thought of as an online radio service, as it is usually broadcast live. Xubuntu requires a special player to be used to listen to them.

  • Install the Last-Exit player to listen to the Last.fm service.

  • Install RealPlayer 10 to watch and listen to streams in the Real Media formats. RealPlayer is available from the Commercial repository.

See Bab 11, Menambah, Menghapus dan Memutakhirkan Aplikasi for help on installing new software.

Listen to podcasts

Podcasts are a way of listening to music and radio shows broadcast on the Internet.

Rhythmbox is not installed by default in Xubuntu. It can be installed easily from the Main repository.

Rhythmbox is able to play many podcasts. Click the Podcasts item in the Source list and then press New Podcast Feed to enter the address of a new podcast. This can normally be found on the website which provides the podcast.

Watch video podcasts

As well as online audio broadcasts (podcasts), many video broadcasts are available from the Internet too. Xubuntu provides several optional applications which you can use to watch videos from the Internet:

  • Democracy TV

  • PenguinTV Media Aggregator

  • Kitty

See Bab 11, Menambah, Menghapus dan Memutakhirkan Aplikasi for help on installing new software.