Book details of 'Linux Multimedia Guide'

Title	Linux Multimedia Guide
Author(s)	Jeff Tranter, Andy Oram
ISBN	1565922190
Language	English
Published	October 1996
Publisher	O'Reilly & Associates

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Multimedia is easy. *If* your operating system supports it. *If* the hardware vendors make drivers for your operating system. *If* there is installation software that supports your operating system and hardware. *If* there are applications that will run on your operating system and that will use your hardware and drivers. Otherwise, of course, multimedia is a mind-bogglingly complex task. You can probably get more and better support for Linux than you can for any commercial operating system. However, you do have to know where and how to get it. Taking these two factors into account, it is easy to see why some would consider the title of Tranter's book to be an oxymoron. As he shows, though, there is ample help, and there are numerous resources, for those who want to pursue multimedia under Linux. Part one of the book gives a general overview, while part two details the hardware and installation requirements. Part three then gives the book's reason for being, as it catalogues the wide variety of applications that are available. For most interested users this would be quite enough. The author, though, goes on to devote about half of the book to give directions, suggestions, resources, and source code for those who want to develop multimedia applications of their own. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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