Free avi software for linux

kavi2dvd is a Kommander script takes an AVI file, converts it to mpeg2 with ac3 audio and generates an .iso image ready for burning as its ouput.

Although there are plenty of scripts out there for conversion of video and authoring, this one is designed to require as little user input as possible. Choose an input .avi, select the destination folder, give the project a name and choose NTSC or PAL.

It then automates the full process of creating a dvd-video compatible image for playback on a stand-alone dvd player.

Kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating SVCD/VCD/DVD-compliant MPEG files from an AVI, MPEG, Quicktime or whatever file using transcode and mplex.
It then generates a (S)Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao.
Main features:
- Generating of the m1v/m2v und mpa-files
- Multiplexing the mpegfile
- Generating the cue/bin-files
- Burning the CDs
- Saving usual configuration data (VCD-type, CD-Size, burning speed, burning device?)
- The command lines are generated and can be edited before executing.
Enhancements:
- Sorry, some necessary fixes in the batchmode on the mplex tab.

The uc-avi plug-in is a Gimp plug-in that loads/saves uncompressed AVI files.

The plug-in loads common uncompressed AVI files into multilayer images. It saves multilayer images to uncompressed AVI. Audio is discarded, only one video stream is supported.

Compressed AVIs may be loaded using mencoder to import.

The AVI player is a plug-in for XMMS, giving it the ability to play Windows AVI (including DivX ;-)) and ASF files on your Linux or FreeBSD box.
You can simply add movies to your playlist and the plug-in will call aviplay to play the movie files. Many aviplay options are supported, such as fullscreen playback and true hardware acceleration on XFree86 4.x.x.
Enhancements:
- Included a stripped version of avifile 0.53.5 that compiles staticly into the plugin. This will make avi-xmms work no matter what avifile version you have installed on the system.
- Added wma and wmv support.

AVI TV Episode File Resizer script is not for multiple MOVIE files (only TV) however it can do SINGLE MOVIE files quite nicely. The project was designed to help me fit (resize the file) multiple Xvid TV episodes (entire season) on a single DVD. Most of the time a TV series is almost exactly the same hours, mins, secs.

That enables this script to set the video bitrate the same for every file (episode) being processed to get the desired file size. The calculation is based on the hours, mins, seconds and the desired file size you want. If you correctly enter the time you will end up with a file size VERY close to the value you entered. The episodes will likley vary about 10 secs or so. Try to average that out when you select the episode time

The new files will have the EXACT same name as the old files so the input and output cannot be in the same DIRECTORY.

The "input files" selector can select multiple files so you can encode one or many files.

If you select an entire season (about 25 episodes) of files it could take quite a few hours to complete. The progress bar updates AFTER the completion of the first file and after every file there after. The current file being processed is displayed in the bottom status bar.

Transcode single pass is used to REencode the files.

Each file will be REencoded with MP3 audio bitrate of 96 kbps. The video is REencoded with the Xvid4 codec.

I used this script to go from 230MB to 175MB with good results. That saved me almost 1.4G for the season (25 episodes) and let me get it on a single DVD to play on my stand alone player.

You should try it with a single file first to check the quality and then do a batch job.

There are other tools to do this but this one can be setup and going in less than 1 min.

It takes almost 10 hours to do an entire season (25 episodes) at an episode time of 25 min 30 sec with a target file size of 171MB (ends up being about 174.8MB)

playvideo is a video player for svgalib that supports AVI, Quicktime (though not all codecs are supported), MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 formats. Most of the codecs are ported from xanim (or are xanim binary codecs). The parts from xanim are to be found mainly in the vidplay.c file. This makes this program subject to the xanim copyright (see README.xanim).

You can use the program for non-commercial purpose, but you need a License from Mark Podlipec for commercial use. Modified versions have included Marks copyright.

kavenc is a KDE service menu utility to easily convert videos and audio files between various formats, or to extract audio from video files.

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED VIDEO OUTPUT FORMATS

- 3GP
- MPEG
- PAL-DV
- NTSC-DV
- PAL-DVD
- NTSC-DVD
- PAL-VCD
- NTSC-VCD
- PAL-SVCD
- NTSC-SVCD
- OGG/Theora
- AVI

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED AUDIO OUTPUT FORMATS

- WAV
- Ogg Vorbis
- MP3
- AAC
- M4A (for iPod)
- Flac