PROJECT REPORT ON

CONFIGURING MULTIMEDIA IN
LINUX FOR AUDIO & VIDEO

Submitted By

JISHNU S BABU
MOHAMMAD AL SHIFAINY
SHAIK ANEER K S
SUDEEP SUKUMAR P.

Guided By

Miss.Sreekala L

ISO9001:2000
Certified

CMS COMPUTER INSTITUTE

KOCHI
2007
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D-SANS Report
On

Configuring Multimedia in Linux

For Audio & Video

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the award of the Diploma of

CMS CERTIFIED NETWORK SPECIALIST

Guided By Submitted
By
Miss.Sreekala L
Jishnu S Babu
Moh
ammad Al shifany
 Sha
ik Aneer K S
Sud
eep Sukumar P

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This is to certify that Mr. SUDEEP SUKUMAR P.

is a bonafide student of CMS institute, Kochi. He has
enrolled for the CCNS (PT) course and has
successfully completed it.

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bonafide student of CMS institute, Kochi. He has
enrolled for the CCNS (PT) course and has
successfully completed it.

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bonafide student of CMS institute, Kochi. He has
enrolled for the CCNS (PT) course and has
successfully completed it.

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SHIFAINY is a bonafide student of CMS institute, Kochi.
He has enrolled for the CCNS (PT) course and has
successfully completed it.

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D-SANS

JISHNU S BABU
MOHAMMAD AL SHIFAINY
SHAIK ANEER K S
SUDEEP SUKUMAR P.

TITLED

Configuring Multimedia in Linux

For Audio & Video

Is approved and accepted in quality &form

GUIDE, CENTRE
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TO WHOMSOEVER IT MAY CONCERN

This is to certify that the following students

JISHNU S BABU
MOHAMMAD AL SHIFAINY
SHAIK ANEER K S
SUDEEP SUKUMAR P.

Has successfully completed the D-SANS for ”

CONFIGURING MULTIMEDIA IN LINUX FOR AUDIO
&VIDEO” with special reference to our organization, in
partial fulfillment of requirement for the award of
“CMS CERTIFIED NETWORK SPECIALIST”. We wish
them all the best in their future academic endeavors.

FOR CMS COMPUTER INSTITUTE

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We here by declare that project entitled

CONFIGURING MULTIMEDIA IN LINUX FOR AUDIO &VIDEO

Submitted to the CMS COMPUTER INSTITUTE,

Ernakulam in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the diploma of
“CMS CERTIFIED NETWORK SPECIALIST”
 Is our original work and not submitted for the award
of any other diploma or other
similar title or prizes

SUDEEP SUKUMAR P. JISHNU S BABU

SHAIK ANEER K S MOHAMMAD AL SHIFAINY

Place: Ernakulam
Date:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to take this

opportunity to express our gratitude to all those,
whose contribution in this project can never
be forgotten. First of all, we express our grateful
thanks to the heavenly god

We express our immense gratitude to

Mrs.Binitha, Head of the centre for her
inspiring guidance and valuable advice throughout
the project work.

We express sincere thanks to our D-

SANS guide Miss.Sreekala.L for
inspiring us to take up this D-SANS
and also rendering her precious help and guidance.

Our hearty thanks to staff members of

CMS Institute, Kochi whose support and
assistance made our project works as
pleasure.

Last but not the least we would like to

thanks to those especially our parents,
our friends without those encouragements
and moral support, we wouldn’t have been able to
complete this project work….

CONTENTS

Introduction 1-11

Sound card technology 11-13

Sound card types 14 -17

Sound card configuration tool 21-23

Sound card installation 24-37

Configuring USB sound cards 38-42

Testing the Installation 43-45

Application supporting sounds 46-47

Playing audio cd’s 47-48

Playing digital music files 48-63

Audio file conversion and compression 63-64

Enabling support for web cam 65-73

Viewing TV 73-80

Conclusion 80

References 82