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Playing Music and Movies
During installation, YaST normally identifies and configures the sound cards of your
computer automatically. Otherwise (or if you installed a new sound card), start YaST
and configure the sound card manually in the Sound module. When your sound card
has been configured, you can control the volume and balance with a mixer and start
other sound applications.
Linux includes a wide range of sound and multimedia applications. Some of these ap-
plications are installed on your Linux system by default. With the applications described
here, control the volume and balance of playback and play CDs, music and movie files.
In case one of the listed applications is not installed by default on your system, use
YaST to install the missing packages. Use the search function of the YaST package
management tool to find the package names.
19.1 Mixers
Mixers provide a convenient means of controlling the volume and balance of the sound
output and input of computers. For a description of the default KDE and GNOME
mixer applets refer to the KDE and GNOME chapters.
The main difference between the various mixers is the outer appearance of the user in-
terface. However, there are a number of mixers that are designed for specific hardware.
One example is envy24control, a mixer for the Envy 24 sound chip. Another one is
hdspmixer, which is for RME Hammerfall cards. From the mixers available, select the
one that best suits your needs.
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