Summary
In this hour, you learned how to configure sound support in FreeBSD by adding the pcm device driver to the kernel, and also creating device nodes for sound support. We then looked at a small sample of the sound applications available for FreeBSD.
Multimedia hardly stops with sound playback, however; and so we looked at the basics of CD burning, MPEG and DivX video playback, and DVD playback—all features that are central to multimedia as we are accustomed to it today.
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