Free karmix 2.03 software for linux

JGui project is a collection of useful Java GUI components and utilities. JGui includes a docking windows framework for Swing and AWT; a dynamic tree framework; ThreadManager, which helps to distribute tasks to a number of threads; TLToolTipManager, which shows hidden parts of JTrees and JLabels cells; JShape, a non-rectangular translucent Swing component; and many more.
Main features:
- Docking windows framework for Swing and AWT.
- Dynamic Tree Framework
- ThreadManager - helps to distribute tasks to a number of threads
- TLToolTipManager - shows hidden parts of JTrees and JLabels cells.
- JShape - not rectangular translucent components.
- JGuiTabbedPane - a TabbedPane implementation.
- RainLayout - LayoutManager which supports both horizontal and vertical orientation, Component sorting, multiple columns/rows, row/column hiding.
- ToolBarLayout - LayoutManager which supports both horizontal and vertical orientation, Components layed out according to supplied absolute coordinates, multiple columns/rows, component wrapping.
- Rotate (90 or 270 grad) J(Toggle)Buttons and JLabels.
- ButtonPanel/FoldableButtonPanel
- IconifyBar/TaskBar
- ScrollPaneNavigator
- JHistogram
Enhancements:
- RainLayout is now available under a BSD license (in a separate package).
- JTabbedPaneExt is a JTabbedPane extension that allows icons to be easily added to tabs.
- This implementations is independent from the installed UI, works with both WRAP_TAB_LAYOUT and SCROLL_TAB_LAYOUT, and also works with any tab placement.
- Any number of icons can be added.
- Hover and pressed icons are supported, as are icon tooltips.
- Some known JTabbedPane bugs were fixed.
- The possibility to synchronize views was added to GSplitPane.
- The animation for TaskPane was improved.
- Bugfixes were made.

IPC::LDT is a Perl module that implements a length based IPC protocol.

Interprocess communication often uses line (or record) oriented protocols. FTP, for example, usually is such a protocol: a client sends a command (e.g. "LS") which is completed by a carriage return. This carriage return is included in the command which is sent to the server process (FTP deamon) which could implement its reading in a way like this:

while ($cmd= )
{
chomp($cmd);
performCommand($cmd);
}

Well, such record oriented, blocked protocols are very useful and simply to implement, but sometimes there is a need to transfer more complex data which has no trailing carriage return, or data which may include more carriage returns inside the message which should not cause the reciepient to think the message is already complete while it is really not. Even if you choose to replace carriage returns by some obscure delimiters, the same could happen again until you switch to a protocol which does not flag the end of a message by special strings.
On the other hand, if there is no final carriage return (or whatever flag string) within a message, the end of the message has to be marked another way to avoid blocking by endless waiting for more message parts. A simple way to provide this is to precede a message by a prefix which includes the length of the remaining (real) message. A reciepient reads this prefix, decodes the length information and continues reading until the announced number of bytes came in.

IPC::LDT provides a class to build objects which transparently perform such "length driven transfer". A user sends and receives messages by simple method calls, while the LDT objects perform the complete translation into and from LDT messages (with prefix) and all the necessary low level IO handling to transfer stream messages on non blocked handles.

IPC::LDT objects can be configured to transfer simle string messages as well as complex data structures. Additionally, they allow to delay the transfer of certain messages in a user defined way.

Hephaestus project is a computer role playing game construction kit.

Hephaestus is a freeware computer role-playing game construction kit (often called an "RPG maker"). A map editor is included, and scripting is done in the Java programming language. Hephaestus is written in Java, and therefore runs on every platform.

Youve wanted to make your own computer role-playing game all your life. Hephaestus 2 makes it easier than ever to make any adventure you can imagine. Use your own art and sounds, or use the standard libraries. Make "static" maps with the map editor, or create your maps entirely with code - even making mazes and dungeons that are different every time you play. Theres never been a better time to start writing your own CRPG!

Hephaestus 2 now includes the post-holocaust horror adventure, Umbra! After the Great Old Ones return to reclaim the Earth, the few survivors cower in towns hidden in the wilderness, or have given themselves over to madness and worship of inhuman gods. You start out alone and helpless, but can rise to strike back, and perhaps return Earth to humanity!

chaplin is a dvd chapter tool for Linux (and all other *ixes with libdvdread support).
The tool parses a DVD disc or image and extracts the exact duration for each chapter of a given title. Then the total list of chapters is split into a user-selectable number of subsets. Each subset should have approximately the same duration.
This is a very useful approach for multi-cd rips. You no longer simply split the movie in the middle of the frame count but you choose two sets of chapters for both parts which both have (almost) the same length. Then the disc-break is not at a rather random point (concering the story telling of the movie) but at the end of a dvd-chapter.
The chapter timings and the split sets are also very useful for chapter navigation (even on a single disc). The normal output mode of chaplin thus prints the chapters relative beginning time and the duration in a wide number of formats, ranging from seconds, frame counts to timestamps.
For S/VCD mastering chaplin can also produce vcdimager XML files for each disc. There a complete sequence structure with chapter entry points is defined. Also the full navigation setup for chapter hopping is provided. Additionally you can add chapter menus and automatically create the necessary menu pages out of thumbnails extracted directly from the DVD.
Installation:
You will need the libdvdread library for this tool. Specify its installation path in the provided Makefile. Then a simple call to "make" should build the chaplin binary. Copy the binary into your PATH. It is very useful to have transcode and vcdimager installed. The chaplin-genmenu tool needs transcode, ImageMagick and the mjpegtools.
Usage
Simple Usage
Just call chaplin the following way:
chaplin -d < dvd_path > -t < title >
This will display a chapter summary and places all chapters into a single subset (the default). This is useful for a single cd transfer. For multi-cd targets you specify the number of subsets with the -p option:
chaplin -d < dvd_path > -t < title > -p 2
This will divide the chapters up into 2 subsets. They should have almost the same size (this depends largely on the granularity of the provided chapters). Now you know which chapters fit on the first disc, know the exact frame count and you can calculate the exact bitrate for this part and finally transcode each part.
Chapter Info
Detailed info on the chapters is also available. Just add the -c option and per chapter info is printed:
chaplin ... -c
The standard output mode prints the relative offset of each chapter in the part. With the -l option you can replace this display with the length of each chapter.
S/VCD Mastering
If your target is a set of S/VCDs then the -x option is very useful:
chaplin ... -x MYMOVIE
MYMOVIE is the basename of the VCDs.
This option generates a XML S/VCD description for vcdimager which contains the exact chapter setup found by chaplin. The XML files are called "vcdNN.xml" and are created in the current directory. Name the MPEG files made from each subset "partNN.mpg" and place them in the same directory (NN=part number). Now a call to:
vcdxbuild vcdNN.xml
should generate a SVCD image with chapters and navigation information.
You can control the XML generation by passing suboptions to -x:
chaplin ... -x MYMOVIE,vcd,my%02d.xml,movie%02.mpg
This will generate VCD 2.0 XML files called myNN.xml and refers to MPEG movie files called movieNN.mpg. Do not forget to include a "%d" expression in the XML and MPEG file patterns. This will be replaced by the current part number. Numbering starts with one by default. Chaplin will begin with zero if you pass the -z option.
The second argument defines the type of the disc: vcd or svcd.
S/VCD Chapter Menus
Since version 1.9 chaplin also supports the creation of XML mastering files for S/VCDs with chapter menus. Add the -m option to -x to enable menu creation. You have to specify how many chapters are selectable on each menu page. chaplin will then create a menu page set for each of the selected parts and each menu page will contain at most the given number of entries:
chaplin ... -x MYMOVIE,svcd,my%02d.xml,movie%02.mpg,menu%02d-%d.mpg -m 6
In this example menu pages with up to six entries are created and labeled menu%02d-%d.mpg. Note the two %d replacement tags in the menu file name. The first one is replaced with the current part number and the second one counts the menu pages for this part. The generated XML will create a SVCD that shows the first menu page and allows to select the first six chapters with the numeric buttons. Furthermore you can switch to the next menu page.
The referenced menu pages are MPEG files containing still images. Each menu page should depict the chapters that can be selected on this page. The menu pages can be rendered automatically with the chaplin-genmenu tool.
Automatic Chapter Menu Generation
The chaplin-genmenu script creates the chapter menu still image MPG files that are referenced in the S/VCD chapter menus. To guide this tool what should be rendered on each menu page, you have to create a chapling menu description with the -g command:
chaplin ... -x ... -m < n > -g menu.txt
Now have a look a the created menu description text file. Its splitted into blocks for each menu page:
chaplin-menu 9
dvd "/dev/dvd" title 10 PAL 4:3
menu01-1.mpg 9 Part 1 Menu 1
01 0 Chapter 1
02 0 Chapter 2
03 0 Chapter 3
04 0 Chapter 4
05 0 Chapter 5
06 0 Chapter 6
07 0 Chapter 7
08 0 Chapter 8
09 0 Chapter 9
menu01-2.mpg 6 Part 1 Menu 2
10 0 Chapter 10
11 0 Chapter 11
12 0 Chapter 12
13 0 Chapter 13
14 0 Chapter 14
15 0 Chapter 15
The description contains the menu files to create and the chapters that are referenced on each page. You can edit this file to change the sample frame for each chapter that will be extracted to get the thumbnail image on the menu page: change the 0 value in the second column to the requested frame number. Finally you can edit the text that gets rendered on the menu pages: The title of each menu page is given in the title line (e.g.: "Part 1 Menu 1") and the chapter description after each frame number (e.g.: "Chapter 1").
Now run the menu page creator:
chaplin-genmenu menu.txt
This sets the dvd input device and title similar to the chaplin call and pass the generated chaplin menu description. This will create the MPG still images needed for S/VCD creation out of the XML file.
Specify -n NTSC if creating a NTSC and not a PAL S/VCD. Use -v if creating a VCD and not a SVCD.
With -o you can set a global offset for each chapter sample frame number. The -u option cleans up all temporary files created during program call. -x will display all external command calls to debug the tool.
With -b, -l and -f you can adjust the rendering of the menu pages.
Note that chaplin-genmenu is an incremental tool that only creates files that are not yet existing in the current path. So you can first call the tool (without -u) to create all intermediate files. Then you can retouch or repaint the menu PNG files and call the tool again to build MPG files. If you pass the -c switch then all files are recreated always.
Enhancements:
- fixed crash in some parts calculations
- output some video attributes in verbose mode
- new menu.txt format now passes all important parameters
- (dvd device, title, tvnorm and aspect ratio) automatically
- chaplin-genmenu:
- improved menu layout creation (hinted by S. Stordal)
- manual layout setup with -m option
- now reads all important parameters from chaplin directly
- thumbs now have correct aspect ratio
- default frame offset is now 16 (to skip partial gops)
- new switch -c allows to always recreate files
- new switch -s sets the font size
- renamed switches to be more consistent