Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

Best Free Linux Software & Open Source Reviews

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Tag: video

Video

MPlayer – video player

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

MPlayer is a very popular movie player which runs on many systems including Linux. It has builtin support for the most common video and audio formats.

Read more
Video

SMPlayer – media player with built-in codecs

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

SMPlayer is a Qt based Mplayer front-end, with basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features.

Read more
Video

Best Free and Open Source Software – Video

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering webcams, video players, video editors, video converters, media centers, YouTube tools, DVD and more.

Read more
Multimedia entertainment

HBud – simple audio and video player

August 10, 2022 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend.

Read more
Copenhagen

timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer

June 17, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Skype

June 6, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Skype provides VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Read more
Abstract art

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Meet

April 15, 2022 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

While Google Meet is free to use, it’s proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Read more
Renderers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Motion

December 13, 2021 Steve Emms Multimedia, Software

Motion is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. What are the best free and open source software.

Read more
Clapper

Clapper – GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit

November 17, 2021 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Clapper is a GNOME media player. It’s built using GJS with the GTK4 toolkit so you’ll see some of the new GTK4 features in action.

Read more
YouTube

Best Free Alternatives to YouTube

July 5, 2021 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia

YouTube has over 2 billion monthly logged-in users with people watching over a billion hours of video a day. What open source alternatives are available?

Read more
Lenovo M93

Lenovo M93 Ultra Small PC – Video and Audio – Week 3

March 22, 2021 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this week’s blog, we put the Lenovo M93 through its paces from a multimedia perspective.

Read more
Kodi

Best Free Android Apps: Kodi – award winning media center

January 20, 2021 Eilidih Parris Android, Multimedia, Software

Kodi media center is a free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

Read more
Regards

Regards – modern photo viewer

November 11, 2020 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.

Read more
Raspberry Pi 4 - OBS Studio

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – OBS Studio – Week 20

March 11, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi range of computers. This week, I test OBS Studio on the RPI4.

Read more
RPI4 - video playback

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Watching Video – Week 10

January 1, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This week, I’m looking at straightforward video playback from locally stored media. Does the RPI4 have sufficient grunt to be a capable video player?

Read more

Movit 1.6.0 Released: High-performance, high-quality video filters for the GPU

January 29, 2018 Steve Emms Applications

Movit aims to be a high-quality, high-performance, open-source library for video filters.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on diff-so-fancy – attractive diffs with diff-highlight and more
  • Steve Emms on 28 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Diff Tools
  • BobsYourUncle on 28 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Diff Tools
  • BobsYourUncle on diff-so-fancy – attractive diffs with diff-highlight and more
  • Steve Emms on Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Cores
  • Mel on Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Cores
  • Torin Doyle on alsamixer – terminal-based mixer for the ALSA sound system
  • Mel on MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
  • Frank C on Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Power Consumption
  • Nyx on Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running Linux – Dual-channel memory

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

Minisforum M2 Panther Lake Mini PC – Intel
Minisforum MS-02 Mini Workstation
BOSGAME M7 285H – Intel
Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation
Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
PELADN WO4 5600H – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel

SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • 19 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions
  • Microdot – small web framework for Python and MicroPython
  • 8 Best Free and Open Source Secrets Management Software
  • WYGIWYH – self-hosted personal finance tracker
  • SmartWallet – offline-first TUI application for managing personal finances
  • OpenBudgeteer – self-hosted budgeting application
  • Rex – keep track of incomes and expenses
  • GopherTube – terminal YouTube client for searching and watching videos
  • Ocular – self-hosted budgeting application
  • Bosgame M7 Core Ultra 9 285H running Linux – Cores

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.