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Movie playback is becoming increasingly popular on computers. Modern PCs come equipped with DVD-ROM drives and, coupled to the right software, these can play DVD movie discs. In addition, many web sites feature streaming movie clips or offer them for download.

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Jason Gilmore Steve Anglin Dan Appleman Ewan Buckingham Gary Cornell Jason Gilmore Jonathan Hassell James Huddleston Chris Mills Matthew Moodie Dominic Shakeshaft Jim Sumser Matt Wade Nicole LeClerc Marilyn Smith Ellie Fountain

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© 2006 Keir Thomas

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Thomas, K. (2006). Movies and Multimedia. In: Gilmore, J., et al. Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0137-3_19

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