The applications included in 4MLinux Media Edition are all very new

Aug 7, 2014 13:38 GMT  ·  By

4MLinux Media Edition 9.1 Beta, a special distribution with a wide set of multimedia tools and software, is now available for download and it's ready for testing.

The distribution features numerous apps and tools dedicated to managing, editing, and playing media files. Users will most certainly find any kind of software they would possibly need. Even if it's not installed, it will be available in the official repositories.

This release has a wide set of applications for playing (MPlayer SVN-r37218 with SMPlayer and SMTube SVN-r6262, Qmmp 0.8.0, xine 1.2.6, TiMidity++ 2.14.0, MikMod 3.3.6) and decoding/encoding (FFmpeg Git-2014-06-01, FLAC 1.3.0, GStreamer 0.10.36, LAME 3.99.5, MAD 0.15.2b, MEncoder SVN-r37218, sndfile 1.0.25, VorbisTools 1.4.0, WavPack 4.70.0).

Also, a number of tools are available for recording (Audacity 2.0.5, SoX 14.4.1) and ripping media (cdparanoia III 10.2, cdrkit 1.1.11, dvd+rw-tools 7.1, DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15, and xorriso 1.3.6).

The developer also provides 4MLinux Media Edition 9.1 Beta as a Live system, which means that you can easily run the OS without having to install it. All the apps mentioned above are available from the get-go and you won't have to download anything extra to use them to their full extent.

You can download 4MLinux Media Edition 9.1 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.