en-US/Multimedia.xml

[John J. McDonough]

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commit 09168d98e96ed75cabf625d431e1f2d9d9f5eb5f
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at Aidan.(none)>
Date:   Thu Mar 18 15:18:24 2010 -0400

    Multimedia Beat

diff --git a/en-US/Multimedia.xml b/en-US/Multimedia.xml
index a3ebac6..24321ea 100644
--- a/en-US/Multimedia.xml
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     <secondary>Section</secondary>
   </indexterm>
 
+  <section>      
+    <title>Better Webcam Support </title>
+    <para>
+      Support for webcams continues to improve in Fedora 13, with many bug fixes
+      and improvements to existing webcam drivers. Drivers for several dual-mode
+      cameras (still cameras that can act as webcams) have been merged into the
+      mainline kernel.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+  <section>
+    <title>KDE PulseAudio Integration </title>
+    <para>
+      KDE 4.4 features improved integration with
+      <application>PulseAudio</application>, Fedora's default sound
+      solution. KDE users benefit from the following new features in Fedora 13:
+    </para>
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  <application>Phonon</application> detects
+	  <application>PulseAudio</application> and no longer shows
+	  non-PulseAudio devices when <application>PulseAudio</application> is
+	  running.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  <application>PulseAudio</application> includes a new
+	  <application>module-device-manager</application> which allows
+	  <application>Phonon</application> to manage
+	  <application>PulseAudio</application> devices.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  Using the above, <application>Phonon</application> allows setting
+	  device priorities for the devices reachable through
+	  <application>PulseAudio</application>.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  <application>KMix</application> now shows
+	  <application>PulseAudio</application> volumes, including
+	  per-application volumes, and allows moving applications between
+	  devices.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+	<para>
+	  The traditional <literal>ALSA</literal> backend for
+	  <application>KMix</application> is still available, use
+	  <command>export KMIX_PULSEAUDIO_DISABLE=1</command> to force its use
+	  even if <application>PulseAudio</application> is detected.
+	</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>SIP Witch Domain Telephony </title>
+    <para>
+      Fedora 13 includes SIP Witch Domain Telephony, allowing users to create
+      and deploy scalable secure VoIP solutions, both for managing a local
+      <literal>SIP</literal> based telephone system, and for calling remote
+      users over the Internet without the need for a service provider or central
+      directory service. With SIP Witch and an SIP-compatible softphone such as
+      <application>Twinkle</application> or <application>Empathy</application>,
+      users can replace propriety VoIP solutions with secure, direct
+      peer-to-peer communications using entirely free software.
+    </para>
+  </section>
   
 </section>