Music

You can listen your favorite songs with Rhytmbox music player.

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application based on the powerful media framework.

It has a number of features, including an easy to use music browser, searching and sorting, comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer, Internet Radio support, transfer music to and from iPod, MTP, and USB, playlists, display audio visualizations.

Video

Linux XP Desktop 2008 offers Totem video player for watching movies. Totem is simple movie player for GNOME desktops.

Totem features:

• Support for various formats.
• Playlist.
• Video scalling (3:4, 16:9). Full-screen mode.
• Pretty complete keyboard navigation system.

Formats: DVD, AVI, MPEG, MOV, ASF, OGG, REAL, MP3, VideoCD (more than 50).

Codecs: MPEG 1,2,4; DIVX 3,4,5; WMV 7,8,9; Real Media 2,3,4; MSVC (more than 30).

Audio codecs: MPEG audio 1,2,3; AC3; Vorbis; WMA (more than 20).

TV

If your PC has TV-tuner on board, then you can watch television programs with kdetv application.

The application support autosearch of TV-channels, several viewing modes and teletext.

Editing audio and video

If you like audio-editing and making home video, you can install and use two applications - audacity and kino.

Audacity is a program for editing audio tracks.

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

Some of Audacity's features include:

• Importing and exporting WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis and other file formats. Audacity support MP3 format via the lame-encoder, that must be installed separetely from network repository.
• Recording and playing sounds
• Editing via Cut, Copy, Paste (with unlimited Undo)
• Multi-track mixing
• A large array of digital effects and plug-ins
• Amplitude envelope editing
• Noise removal
• and others functions

Moviemaking can be done with the help of the kino application.

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE 1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in AVI format in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

CD/DVD Burning

You can burn copies of your important files and favorite music and video with a single click in a Nautilus file manager.

Also you can use k3b is an excellent application.