Chapter 12. Customizing a Multimedia Live Linux CD

Creating, manipulating, and displaying multimedia content has long been a favorite pastime for PC users. Computers these days are just expected to enable you to play music, watch movies, and work with your digital images. Improvements in free and open-source multimedia applications make for a rich set of choices for someone putting together a Linux-based live CD that focuses on multimedia applications.

Multimedia live CDs covered in this chapter fall into two categories:

  • Multimedia players—By specializing in only playing video, music, and slide shows, multimedia player live CDs can be trimmed to a very small size. Consuming only a few megabytes of disk space allows these players to run totally ...

Get Negus Live Linux Series Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.