42 of the Best Free Linux Video Software
There is an sizeable amount of free video software available
on the Linux platform which is both fully featured and mature. Become a
digital video editing master, turn your Linux machine into a Home
Theatre box are two options that are explored in this article.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is
available,
we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux video applications,
covering a broad spectrum of uses. Most of the titles included in this
feature are desktop applications with an elegant graphical front-end,
although we have not neglected console software.
It's worth mentioning that there are a number of Linux
distributions that specialise in multimedia and digital content
creation platforms. These include 64
Studio, DeMiDi, dyne:bolic
and Ubuntu Studio.
Now, let's explore the 42 video applications at hand. For each
title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of
the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of
its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
| Players |
| Gnash |
Flash movie player |
| Kaffeine |
Full
featured media player for KDE |
| KMPlayer |
Basic
audio/video viewer application for KDE |
| Miro |
A platform
for Internet television and video |
| MPlayer |
Extremely powerful movie player |
| Ogle |
DVD
player that supports DVD menus |
| SMPlayer |
Qt
based MPlayer front-end |
| Totem |
Official
movie player of the GNOME desktop environment |
| VLC |
Portable multimedia player for various audio and video
formats |
| xine |
Powerful
multimedia program, specializing in video playback |
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Personal Video Recorders |
| Moovida |
Cross-platform media center solution designed to be
simple to
use |
| Freevo |
Manage
your entire digital media collection |
| LinuxMCE |
Media PC / HTPC (Home Theater PC)
similar to Windows XP Media Center |
| MythTV |
Provides
a Home Theatre
convergence box |
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| Media Collection
Managers |
| GCStar |
Manages personal collections |
| Griffith |
Movie
collection manager application |
| Tellico |
KDE application for organizing your collections |
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| Editors |
| Avidemux |
Video editor designed for simple cutting,
filtering
and encoding tasks |
| Celtx |
Screenwriting
software for writing and formatting a screenplay |
| Cinelerra |
3
main
functions: capturing, compositing, and editing audio/video |
| Kdenlive |
Non-linear
video editor for KDE |
| Kino |
Non-linear
DV editor |
| LiVES |
Video
Editing System designed to be simple to use, yet
powerful |
| Open
Movie Editor |
Non-linear video editor designed for basic
movie
making capabilities |
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Video Samplers |
| Veejay |
Visual
instrument and realtime video sampler |
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Video Streaming |
| MPEG4IP |
End-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia |
| FreeJ |
Digital
instrument for video livesets with realtime
rendering of multilayered video |
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Animation |
| Blender |
3D content creation suite |
| Stopmotion |
Create
stop motion animations |
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| Webcam |
Cheese
|
Use your
webcam to take photos and videos
|
| HasciiCam |
Serves
live ascii video over the net |
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Encoding and
Conversion |
| FFmpeg |
Real time audio/video
encoder/converter, streaming server |
| HandBrake |
Multithreaded
DVD to MPEG-4 converter |
| MEncoder |
Simple movie encoder, designed to encode
MPlayer-playable movies |
| thin
liquid film |
Removed |
| transcode |
Console based tools for transcoding video and audio
files |
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| DVD Authoring
& Ripping |
| DeVeDe |
Create video DVDs, suitables for home players, from any
number of video files |
| DVDStyler |
Cross-platform
DVD authoring application |
| Q
DVD-Author |
GUI frontend for dvdauthor and
related tools |
| Thoggen |
DVD
backup utility ('DVD ripper'), based on GStreamer and Gtk+ |
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Tools
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| dvgrab |
Receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder
via an IEEE1394 |
recordMyDesktop
|
Captures
audio-video data of a desktop session
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Last Updated Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 03:30 PM EST
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