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qdvdauthor qdvdauthor is a GUI frontend for dvdauthor written in Qt. Read more hot advene Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is aimed at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents (movies, courses, conferences, etc.), as well as tools to edit and visualize the hypervideos generated from both the annotations and the audiovisual documents. Teachers, moviegoers, etc. can use them to exchange multimedia comments and analyses about video documents. The project also aims at studying the way that communities of users (teachers, moviegoers, students, etc.) will use these self-publishing tools to share their audiovisual "readings", and to envision new editing and viewing interfaces for interactive comment and analysis of audiovisual content. animmaker animmaker is a utility for producing a raw AVI file from image and audio pipes and files. Currently, the only supported image format is raw TGA. The resulting AVI file can be encoded and postprocessed with other utilities like mencoder. AVInfo AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI header information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, sound parametrs, and the number and type of streams. Buz tools Buz tools is a collection of small utilities to make the Buz driver for Linux (version 1.0) useful to applications. It contains utilities to record and playback movtar streams, convert an extracted JPEG with 2 fields into 2 single JPEG files, a realtime video window in X and more. Cambozola Cambozola is a very simple viewer for multipart jpeg streams that are often pumped out by a streaming webcam server, sending over multiple images per second. ccextractor ccextractor is a fast closed captions extractor for MPEG files. It supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, and Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. cdg2video cdg2video is a command line tool for converting karaoke CDG+MP3 files to a video. cfourcc cfourcc identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allow the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. clive clive is a command line tool for extracting videos from the YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba (free), and Stage6 Web sites. DeVeDe DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs, suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor y MKisofs (well, and Python, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small. dov4l dov4l is a console tool sets parameters of a Video4Linux-device. You can set things like picturesize, brightness, contrast, tunerfrequency. dumpmpeg dumpmpeg is a simple program that allows you to dump frames from mpeg movies. Future features might include dumping of the audio as well. dumpmpeg uses Loki's SMPEG library. Dv2vloopback Dv2vloopback transforms your camcorder into a v4l virtual device in order to be able to use it with applications that use a webcam such as Flash, AMSN, and Kopete. It works by using vloopback, GD, and dvgrab. DVB Remote Key Editor DVB Remote Key Editor is a tool to edit the usually hard-coded keymaps of Linux's DVB-T USB kernel modules. It binary patches the module with the new keymap. No recompilation of the kernel is required. dvbackup dvbackup encapsulates arbitrary files into a raw DV data stream suitable for writing on a DV tape. dvbcut dvbcut is a Qt application that allows you to select certain parts of an MPEG transport stream (as received via Digital Video Broadcasting, DVB) and save these parts into a single MPEG output file. It follows a "keyhole surgery" approach where the input video and audio data is mostly kept unchanged, and only very few frames at the beginning and/or end of the selected range are re-encoded in order to obtain a valid MPEG file. dvbsnoop dvbsnoop is a DVB / MPEG stream analyzer program, which enables you to watch (live) stream information in human readable form. DVD Rip-O-Matic DVD Rip-O-Matic is a simple DVD-to-XviD ripping wizard that uses MEncoder to do the actual encoding. The wizard was designed to be very easy to use; it automatically detects the optimal settings. It should also produce very high quality AVI files, even if you have no idea what the settings mean and just use it in the next-next-next-finish way. dvd-slideshow dvd-slideshow generates a DVD-compatible MPEG2 video file with audio from a text file input listing of pictures and effects. dvd2divx3pass DVD2DiVX3Pass is yet another DVD 2 DiVX rip program for Linux. It aims to be a simple, yet flexible encoder with support for 3-pass DiVX encoding. dvd95 DVD95 is an GNOME application to convert DVD9 to DVD5 (4.7 GB). It needs no additional packages, as versions of vamps and dvdauthor are included. The interface is pretty simple to use. dvd::rip dvd::rip is a Perl Gtk+ based program build on top of a low level DVD Ripping API, which uses the Linux Video Stream Processing Tool transcode. dvdrtools dvdrtools is a fork of cdrtools, with the primary goal of supporting writable DVD drives. dvdspanky dvdspanky is a CLI tool to convert video files into DVD compatible MPEG streams. It is designed to be easy to use no matter the input source and to automate common transcoding tasks while providing powerful features. It provides a frontend to transcode, mjpegtools, mplayer, and feh. It includes additional features such as specifying destination file size and calculated clipping and letterboxing. DVDStyler DVDStyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System. DVDx InfoTool DVDx InfoTool shows the DVD structure (such as VTS, PGC, and menus) and the video/audio/subtitle format of a DVD-Video disc (protected or not). The information can be displayed in two views: a complete dump or "text" which filters out less useful details. DVTS DVTS sends and receives DV data using the Internet. It consists of dvsend and dvrecv - dvsend receives DV data via IEEE1394, and sends it to dvrecv using IP, while dvrecv receives DV/RTP packets, and sends DV data using an IEEE1394 interface. FFmpeg FFmpeg is the first complete and free Internet Live Audio and Video Broadcasting solution. FFMpeg aims at being the command line tool to handle audio and video. It is a "three-in-one" solution. Free YouTube Downloader Free YouTube Downloader is an application for downloading videos from YouTube. It allows you to extract video files names from the YouTube Web site, perform multiple downloads during one program session, and produce HTML format download reports. GAnSO GAnSO is a powerful animation studio that lets you create your own videos under the GNOME desktop. It can be extended in a lot of senses with plug-ins, while uses a simplified core. gAny2DVD gAny2DVD is a graphical application that can convert any of your video files supported by your installation of "mplayer" into MPEG2 format suitable for creating DVDs. A simple DVD authoring tool is included as well. You need to have mplayer, mencoder, and dvdauthor installed in order to run gAny2DVD. gDVDshrink gDVDshrink is a simple tool to help you 'shrink' long double-layer DVD titles into single-layer 4.2 GB DVD-R medium. GStreamer FFmpeg Plug-in GStreamer FFmpeg plug-in contains one plugin with a set of elements that use the FFmpeg library code. It contains most popular decoders as well as very fast colorspace conversion elements. Images2dv-gui Images2dvgui is an application to make a video images slideshow. The export formats are DV (Raw .dv, Raw.dif, AVI Type 1, and AVI Type 2) and MPEG (VCD, SVCD, XVCD, and DVD). It's possible to add sound. It's possible to add transitions between images, and the transition type can be defined for each image. IR Control Client for Ogle DVD player a LIRC-compatible client for the IR remote control in the ' Ogle DVD player jpegtoavi In the tradition of the Unix computing philosophy, here is yet another operator that does one simple task, namely the creation of an AVI MJPEG file given a list of JPEG/JFIF files. K9Copy K9Copy is a tabbed tool that allows to copy of one or more titles from a DVD9 to a DVD5, in the same way than DVDShrink for Microsoft Windows (R). KMediaFactory KMediaFactory is meant to be easy to use DVD authoring tool. It is NOT meant to be full blown DVD Authoring package. Read more kmenc15 kmenc15 is an advanced MEncoder frontend, generally designed to be a VirtualDub replacement for Linux. It is most useful for editing and encoding large high quality AVIs capped from TV. It allows cutting and merging at exact frames, applying any MPlayer/MEncoder filter, with preview. KmPg2 KmPg2 is a user friendly MPEG2 encoding wizard. It allows the user to create high quality DVD compatible MPEG2 streams from any input video. It is designed to be easy to use, requiring little technical knowledge. The wizard uses the powerful video processing tools and the MPEG encoder from the MJPEGTools project. KungFu DVD Ripper KungFu is an extremely easy to use DVD backup application (aka "ripper") based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. It rips your DVDs to .ogg files on your hard drive, utilizing patent-free codecs (Theora for video and Vorbis for audio). lxdvdrip lxdvdrip automates the process of Ripping, Authoring, Preview and Burning of a DVD. ManDVD ManDVD is a tool for generating video DVDs. Manencode Manencode is a MANDVD module that prepares video to be DVD compliant. This module can be use to transcode any video and edit it. It can cut part of a film, add subtitles, and adjust lightness, contrast, and saturation. mapmvideo mapmvideo is a 1f42 MPEG video stream mapper. The written MPEG video stream maps contain information such as stream frame rate, stream duration and number of frames, file position of video stream frames, and so forth. The output conforms to the 1f42 H262 map file format and can be used by programs (such as the linuxlogo MPEG video player) to perform fast and accurate random access. metacafe-dl metacafe-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from metacafe.com, based on the code of youtube-dl. Hence, it has the same requirements and features, and its syntax is very similar. mkvtoolnix MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows. They do for Matroska what the OGMtools do for the OGM format and then some. MPEG Menu System Version 2 MPEG Menu System Version 2 is a rewrite of Mpeg Menu System (MMS) for the dxr3. mmsv2 is a menu system for easy navigation and playback of music and video mpgtx mpgtx is a command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox. MPlayer Resume Playback MPlayer Resume Playback is a wrapper script for mplayer which saves the playback position of a file you are watching, and when you resume playing the file, will seek to where you last left off. It's most useful with remote control devices. MPlayer Tools mplayer-tools is a collection of utilities that eases the use of MPlayer.If you have a TV Tuner you can record and timeshift easily.It also remembers movies and positions so you can resume a movie with a short command,and it has support for movie series. MplayerBuddy MplayerBuddy is a media bookmarking application designed to keep track of the user's place when watching videos. It uses mplayer as its back-end media player. It is designed for people with very short attention spans who constantly start and stop several videos. MvpdMake MvpdMake is a GUI wrapper around mplayer, mencoder, sox, and mv_encoder to convert video files to the MoviePod (.mvpd) video format to be played by mv_player under iPodLinux on your iPod Nano. MythTV email next "MythTV email next 10 recordings" is a script that sends email to the user to show the next 10 recordings that will be performed by MythTV. Open-DVB Open-DVB is an open implementation of digital video broadcasting (DVB) distributed under the BSD license. The purpose of this application is to serve as a benchmark for our compiler system. OST-Box OST-Box (Open Set-Top Box) is (yet another) set-top box program. Its goal is to provide easy access to all kinds of media and to be easy to extend. Its interface is written in XML and JavaScript (using Mozilla Spidermonkey). The current features include browsing and editing of photo collections, playing of video clips, and control from lirc. Piksel Piksel is a framework of tools and libraries which aims to provide interoperability between various free software applications dealing with video manipulation techniques. PM2V PM2V is a library for parallel encoding a video sequence in MPEG II. PM2V is mainly based on mpeg2encode v1.2a, it aims to speed up the computing of video sequence by using multiple processors. PMPlib Portable Media Player library (PMPlib) is an open source project to develop a management software/library for various portable media players. pornotube-dl pornotube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from pornotube.com, based on the code of youtube-dl. Hence, it has the same requirements and features, and its syntax is very similar. PVRec PVRec takes the MPEG-2 input stream and lets you save and view it simultaneously (or do either, or neither). python-dvdauthor The dvdauthor module allows you to create a structure of menus, titles, and titlesets (including the VMGM menu) in an object-oriented manner. python-youtube python-youtube is a Python client for the YouTube API. You can use it to access YouTube metadata in your applications and Web applications using the REST interface of the YouTube API. QuickRip DVD QuickRip DVD is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. Whilst it lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other (in my experience) unecessary options. QuickTime Components This project aims to develop QuickTime components for popular open source audio and video codecs. qvcd qvcd is a graphical frontend for GNU vcdimager and cdrdao. Together with those tools, qvcd can be used to create a VideoCD out of an MPEG file. regionset regionset adjusts and shows the region code of DVD drives. ReplayTV 5000 Series Client ReplayTV 5000 Series Client allows users to download MPEG files from a ReplayTV. The program sends a request to the multicast address, and listens for answers. Schrodinger Schrodinger is a project implementing the Dirac video codec in ANSI C code. It is meant to be highly optimized and portable. Schrodinger is developed as a joint effort between the BBC and Fluendo. setv4l a simple command line program for changing the picture settings of a video 4 linux device shotdetect shotdetect is an application which can detect shots in a video. It is based on ffmpeg, it supports a lot of formats, and it can be used on the command line or with a GUI. It generates thumbs and an XML file. An XSL stylesheet can be applied to this file to generate another file. SLMotion SLMotion is a program which applies a particular kind of special effect to video data. The effect first slows down a section of the video and then speeds up a section immediately afterward. TCPCam TCPCam is a free, simple to use, setup, hack, video conference software for the Linux operating system. It basically takes the video stream from a video4linux device, and the audio from the sound board using the OSS API, and uses a single TCP port in order to forward this data to a remote host (and the reverse). Thoggen Thoggen is a DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+. It features a nice GUI, support for title preview, picture cropping, and picture resizing. It can encode into Ogg/Theora video. TiVo File Decoder TiVo File Decoder software converts a .TiVo file (produced by the TiVoToGo functionality on recent TiVo software releases) to a normal MPEG file. Tivo2dvd Tivo2dvd creates and executes the series of commands required to access, format, and burn television shows from a Series II Tivo directly to a DVD. It supports processing multiple shows at once, to a DVD with menus. TiVoBridge TiVoBridge is a packet repeater for both the TiVo discovery beacon and multicast DNS protocols. It is intended as a way for TiVo boxes and other devices or programs that use either of those (normally single-subnet) protocols to see each other across routers in a complex local network. tovid tovid is a suite of utilities designed to make VCD, SVCD, and DVD authoring a little less painful. tovid can create MPEG output from arbitrary video formats; other components in the suite can help you identify video files, generate graphical menus for DVD, and write the XML for authoring DVDs. ts2mpa ts2mpa is a simple tool to extract MPEG audio from an MPEG-2 transport stream. TV-Out for NVidia cards This is a tool to enable TV-Out on Linux for NVidia cards. It does not need the kernel, supports multiple TV encoder chips. You may use all the features of the chip, down to direct register access, and all resolutions and sizes the chip supports. ucview ucview is a video image capture application that uses the unicap toolkit. It provides a simple way to parametrize the video device, can capture still images from the video stream, or record the stream as an MPEG file. By using unicap, it can access many different video capture devices like webcams, video grabber boards, IEEE-1394 (FireWire) cameras, and others. VACUM Video Analysis and Comparison Utilities and More: provides flexible input handling, an image processing library, and tools for objective and visual measurement of the video quality. vcdautomenu vcdautomenu is a shell script (bash actually) that takes as arguments 3 MPEG files and auto-generates a VCD image complete with an animated menu. VCDImager VCDImager is a full-featured mastering suite for authoring, disassembling and analyzing Video CDs and Super Video CDs. VCDKutter VCDKutter is a small program using mtvp as backend to copy, split video CD dat files into small chunks. vdr_remote vdr_remote is a graphical remote control for the video disk recorder vdr. It connects over a TCP/IP network and gives you a complete remote control. Video Contact Sheet *NIX Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires mplayer, imagemagick (convert and montage), and ffmpeg. videocheck videocheck is a simple program for checking and analyzing video AVI file structure. The program is useful for recovering broken AVI files or finding bugs during development of software that produces AVI files. Videotrans The videotrans project is a set of scripts that converts a movie file in any format that mplayer understands (AVI, etc) to a DVD compatible VOB file, including all the necessary conversions. Further, an automatic DVD menu generator is provided. vidprofile vidprofile is a collection of a few components that finds the best way to create MPEG video with mjpegtools. Vidrate Vidrate is a tool for allowing multiple people to vote which video files of a database should be kept. Vobcopy Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to harddisk, decrypting them on the way (thanks to libdvdread) and merges them into 2 GB files (or larger) with the name extracted from the DVD. vobwalker vobwalker walks through a .VOB file containing DVD video, extracting lists of VOBUs to a set of chapter files. Each file begins with a VOBU that has no predecessor (i.e., does not point at a preceding VOBU) and contains the list of VOBUs found by following the successor pointers along the list. X-ChaMan X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display a simple GUI menu providing a choice of language and chapter selection. xine-plugin xine-plugin is a xine-based multimedia player plugin for Mozilla browsers and other plugin-compatible browsers. Xmffmpeg Xmffmpeg is a GUI ffmpeg that It allows you to create VCD, PVCD, SVCD, PDVD, and DVD. Xr3 Xr3 is a very simple X Windows based GUI remote control program designed specifically for the ReplayTV. YouGrabber YouGrabber is a command line YouTube.com video downloader made from scratch in ANSI C using the libcURL API. youtube-dl youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com.
