Because open source software can be manipulated as you choose and redistributed, live CDs are
becoming an increasingly popular method of demonstrating software projects and content.
Multimedia Bootables
Some bootable Linuxes are tailored specifically to let you play movies, music, and images. Most let
you play whatever content you have on your hard disk or can point to from the Internet. Many run
in a small enough amount of memory to let you remove the bootable DVD or CD containing Linux
and insert your own content (such as a music CD or movie DVD) to play.
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MoviX
With MoviX (http://sourceforge.net/projects/movix/), you run a multimedia player
that disregards the operating systems (Windows, Linux, or otherwise) installed on your system.
Because MoviX is small enough to run in your system memory, after it has booted you can remove
it and insert the CD or DVD containing the content you want to run. With MoviX, you can play:
Videos??”You can play video from many different formats, including DivX/XVID,
MPEG 1 and 2, and MPEG 4. So that MoviX can be freely distributed, it does not
include the capability to play most DVD movies.
The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) prohibits the creation or distribution
of software that is made to circumvent encryption that protects copyrighted material.
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