Free asf software for linux

Video::Info::ASF is a Perl module for ASF files for attributes like:

-video codec
-audio codec
-frame height
-frame width
-frame count
and more!

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Info::ASF;

my $video;

$video = Video::Info::ASF->new(-file=>$filename); #like this

$video->vcodec; #video codec
$video->acodec; #audio codec
...

ASF stands for Advanced Systems Format, in case you were wondering. It used to stand for Active Streaming Format, but Microsoft decided to change it. This type of file is primarily used to store audio & video data for local or streaming playback. It can also be embedded with commands (to launch a web browser, for instance), for an "immersive" experience. ASF is similar in structure to RIFF. (See RIFF::Info). The morbidly curious can find out more below in REFERENCES.

This project attempts to provide a working implementation of a few multimedia-related utilities for x86 Linux. At the time of its creation in May 2000 its primary goal was creation of video capture and recompression applications that would work with most popular AVI file format and newest data compression methods ( Indeo Video and variations of MPEG-4 for image compression and MPEG Layer-3/Windows Media Audio for sound ).

The core idea of the project was in using Win32 dynamic-link libraries in Linux environment. However, it has become most popular because of its side product - an AVI movie player that could play DivX ;-) movies in Linux with reasonable performance and stability. Since then most of work was done in this direction.

Now it supports a wide range of codecs ( compressors/decompressors ) such as DivX ;-), Indeo Video, I263, and others, able to show subtitles and perform video output using YUV overlays when necessary support from hardware and operating system is available.

It is also able to play most files in ASF format, and current development CVS code is capable of streaming ASF media over HTTP. The project is not intended to provide universal media framework for Linux, nor to do much more than what it currently does. Moreover, its mostly a proof-of-concept work. It was the first project that introduced the idea of using Windows DLLs and very limited ( ~50 Kbytes of code ) subset of Win32 API for audio/video (de)compression in *nix environments, the idea which is already reused in several other - more general - software projects.

It is the first project that extends that idea to the usage of DirectShow audio/video decoders for the same purpose ( by emulating DirectShow/DCOM environment from decoder point of view ). It is the only project that includes a player for files in Advanced Streaming Format. All these features are essential for the complete modern multimedia environment, and hopefully will become available in near future in such perspective architectures as Arts ( KDE ) or GStreamer ( Gnome ).

Aside from reusing the ideas, the project is used as is in a few media players for Linux, such as XMMS, XTheater or LAMP. The code of this project is distributed under General Public License version 2. Basically it means that you may do anything you want with this code, but if you want to redistribute it or any its derivatives, you have to do it under GPL and you have to make the source code available. For more details visit the site of Free Software Foundation.

Legal issues covering Win32 DLLs which accompany source code are a bit more complicated. These DLLs are freely available in the Internet ( exact URLs to most of them are available on this site ). For those DLLs which come with the license, their copyright owners allow using them at no cost if you do not disassemble, reverse-engineer them, etc. In some cases ( Indeo Video ) they explicitly allow to include these files into other projects under mentioned restrictions. Many DLLs are available without having to accept any license agreement at all ( DivX ;-), all DirectShow codecs ), what obviously means that any kind of activity with them is acceptable.

There is no warranty about the quality of this project. It is written mostly by one former university student with background in the area of Applied Physics in his spare time. I cannot even guarantee that it compiles properly on your system, because I dont have resources to test it on all existing distributions of Linux and flavors of Unix. I try to resolve the issues that Im informed about.

mkiso is a script that depends on the eMoviX software to convert media files.

eMoviX is a micro (7MB) Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want. A CD burned with eMoviX will be able to boot and play automatically all of its files with MPlayer.

Supported formats are AVI (in particular DivX & XviD formats), MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, Ogg, and in general everything supported by MPlayer.

Synapse application is an ESB engine built completely on the Web Services standards on top of Apache Axis2.
It is a mediation framework for Web services that allows messages flowing through, into, or out of an organization to be mediated, including aspects such as logging, service lookup, performance mediation, versioning, failover, monitoring, fault management, and tracing.
Synapse is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Web Services PMC.
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects.
While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
We have released a first Milestone M1. The release will supports:
- Simple mediation based on regex and xpath rules
- Onbound routing of messages
- Deploy simple Java mediators to perform logging, routing, message transform etc
- XSLT transformation of messages
- HTTP Proxy support
- Stages and in/out handling of messages

Nautilus-audio-convert is an extension of the Gnome desktop manager Nautilus. nautilus-audio-convert introduces contextual menus hen clicking on an audio file.

The new menus permit to convert the audio file into other audio formats.

Supported audio formats are:

- Microsoft ASF (input)
- Microsoft PCM Waves (input/output)
- Mpeg3 (input/output)
- Ogg Vorbis (input/output)

PACPL-KI is a Perl Audio Converter Kommander Interface.
Supported Encode Formats:
mp2, mp3, ogg, flac, fla, ape, shn, aac, m4a, mp4, mpc, mpp, wv, ofr, ofs, tta, pac, lpac, kxs, wav, aiff, au, snd, raw, voc, smp, avr, cdr, ac3, la, bonk, ra
Supported Decode Formats:
mp2, mp3, ogg, flac, fla, ape, shn, aac, m4a, mp4, mpc, mpp, wv, ofr, ofs, tta, pac, lpac, kxs, wav, aiff, au, snd, raw, voc, smp, avr, cdr, ac3, la, bonk, wma, ra, ram
Supported video to audio (decode only):
rm, rv, asf, avi, divx,mkv, mpg, mpeg, mov, ogm, qt, vcd, vob, wmv, flv
Main features:
- CD ripping to any of the Supported Encode Formats with CDDB support for naming / tagging, and naming scheme selection.
- Recursive directory conversions.
- Optional directory preservation when recursively converting a directory.
- Optional bitrate/quality selection before encoding via "Encoder Options".

Aldegonde is a simple and efficient media player based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
It supports all file formats supported by GStreamer, including Ogg (Theora, Vorbis, Speex, FLAC), ASF (WMV/WMA, ...), AVI (XviD, MJPEG, DivX ...), Quicktime (MPEG-4, Sorensen, ...), MPEG (1, 2, 4) and so on.
It will also play audio-CDs, video-CDs and DVDs. The primary purpose of Aldegonde is to be a simple example application. It includes a very simple, to-the-point Gtk+ video widget for GStreamer, and it also contains code for automatic disc content detection (VCD, DVD, audio-CD).
The whole of Aldegonde is basically a test bed for features in Totem, which is the official GNOME video/media player.
Main features:
- Support for all popular media formats, including Ogg, AVI, ASF, MPEG and Quicktime.
- Automatic disc content detection. Insert an audio-CD, DVD or VCD and Aldegonde will automatically detect disc type and load the appropriate playback backend.
- Automatic size handling
- Metadata loading support
- Full-screen support

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.

VDR MP3 plugin adds sound playback capability to VDR by Klaus Schmidinger.

Supported audio codecs:

- libmad Supports MPEG-1/2/2.5 with layers 1/2/3.
- libsndfile Supports MS WAV/A-law/u-law; Apple/SGI AIFF/AIFC; Sun/NeXT AU/SND; Amiga IFF/8SVX/16SV and more.
- libvorbis Supports Vorbis/Ogg.

The MP3 plugin is distributed as a dual-plugin together with the MPlayer plugin. The different audio codecs require additional support libraries.

VDR MPlayer plugin adds the ability to call MPlayer from within VDR (by Klaus Schmidinger), allowing to replay all video formats supported by MPlayer over your DVB card.

Note: for most formats MPlayer has to do on-the-fly transcoding to MPEG1. This requires a decent CPU to work (>1Ghz). It may work with slower CPUs if you tune down the transcoding quality.

The MPlayer plugin is distributed as a dual-plugin together with the MP3 plugin.