Free media browser software for linux

Chimera is an X/Athena Web client for UNIX-based workstations. If you do not know about the Web then try to grab a FAQ from rtfm.mit.edu using ftp. Chimera is not built on Motif so does not require this.
Installation:
See ./INSTALL for installation and configuration instructions.
See ./INSTALL.hints for tips on getting it to work in special cases.
What are all these files:
A description of the structure of the files in this distribution appears
near the end of this file.
Enhancements:
- Chimera 1.70 contains many new features compared to 1.65p1+1:
- 1) Table support has been vastly improved.
- 2) mailto:user@host URLs are now supported (via an external Perl script).
- 3) Display refresh has been substantially optimized.
- 4) Image handling improvements speed up rendering, a lot in some cases.
- 5) DNS caching cuts domain name lookup calls by about 90%.
- 6) Connection progress is displayed in the Title area.
- 7) The "Host:" HTTP request header has been added.
- 8) A new toggle button, DeferPix, has been added that turns delayed image loading on and off (or you can type i if you prefer).
- 9) If serious HTML command errors are encountered on a visited page, a small message saying so will appear at the bottom of the page.
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- Chimera 1.70 also contains a long list of bug fixes, including these:
- Some 20 different memory leaks have been fixed, including all the major ones.
- Handling of excess "../"s in a relative URL has been fixed, and URL parsing in general has been greatly improved. The bug that a JPEG image in a file named *.gif would not only fail, but prevent ALL further image display has been fixed. A pages Title and URL are now restored in many cases where before they werent.
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ICD Browser for the ICD-10 codes from W.H.O.
This program is an easy to use browser with search capability for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, as they are published from the W.H.O.
Main features:
- Three versions, for Windows (XP, 2000, 98), Linux and Pocket PC (WM2003, WM5).
- Two ways for displaying codes, Grouped all together into a treebox, or separeted into chapters, sections and subsections.
- Search codes.
- Easy to use interface.

MediaLibrary is a multi-platform free software that lets you catalog your media files ( CD-Rs, DVDs...)
Its main purpose is to reference your media files in a category tree with any comment. You can then easily find any file you are looking for.
MediaLibrary is Free Software available under the terms of the GNU/GPL running on Java.
Main features:
- Status Bar with Current Selection Management & Monitored Task Stacking
- Catalog Load Tracing (options/trace menu)
- Recent files list
- Automatic backup & Warning if saving on an already existing different Catalog
- Graphical file category change
- Browsable help & documentation
- Numerous switchable gui icon sets (through setting the medialib.icons.directory property in the resources/medialib.prop file)
- 2 GUI loading & indexing refresh politics: continuous or on action end only (customizable in resources/medialib.prop by setting the medialib.gui.refresh property either to "OnModelEvent" or to "OnActionEndOnly"). The last one is 6 times faster.
- XML format:
- Read & write catalogs in XML and gzip XML
- Full ADC catalog 1.15b format compliance:
- Minus: media drive "free size" field
- Read & write (catalog, medias, dirs & files, categories, dates, comments, sizes...)
- Adc uses a nonstandard date storage format, so there may be up to 4 min delay between adc dates loaded from pure adc and stored by MediaLibrary
- Indexed media & file tree sorted view:
- Shows full indexed filesystem & file properties (name, size...)
- Directory properties (full size, files number...) autocomputing
- Media can be renamed & removed (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Media & directories can be sorted (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Customizable sort strategies (in resources/medialib.prop)
- Select Subtree action (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Media indexation:
- Any drive or directory may be indexed in the current catalog
- MediaLibrary on Windows guesses drives label, type & serial number
- Indexed MP3 files ID3s are parsed as file comments
- Hierarchical categorization model:
- Compliant with pure ADC file format
- The / slash character is used as categories level separator
- Features a tree categories view showing categorized files
- Navigation from categorized files to media view by double click
"new", "add","move" and "remove" categories tree popup & Edit menu actions
- All selected files may be recategorized at the same time
- File & media search feature:
- Toolbar search textfield & launch button
- Google like behaviour for the search entries : spaces are understood as AND operators
- Category cross searching
- Satistics tab providing information on found files
- Stats:
- Toolbar statistics launch button to compute statistics on the current catalog
- An increasing panel of statistics for now : basic statistics on files, statistics on multimedia files
- An "easy to extend" stats computing architecture. Develop your own statistics algorithm
- Preferences Edition:
- Edits the reources/medialib.prop, saves on exit
- Single and multi properties handled
- Report:
- HTML output
- Reports missing serial episodes in the subcategories of the Preferences chosen top serial Category

Media Database is a media database that uses PHP for the GUI and MySQL for data storage.

It has movie, series, and anime listings. Media Database has lending and wishlist capabilities.

Installation:

Unpack mediadb-*.tar.gz to www dir or public_html dir.
Edit config.php, change mysql_user_name, mysql_password and mysql_server_host to match your MySQL database username, password and host.
run url: http://url_to_mediadatabase/install_mediadb.php, and follow the link and log in as admin and make default yourself a user.

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****** Dont use the admin user for adding films and stuff. ******
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If there are any problems, please send a short description of where it occurs and the error message to my email addres: marco (at) cakebox (dot) net, marc the topic with [mediadb]: (something you find fitting)

Media Pirate allows you to download videos and flash movies from websites.

More and more websites publish their videos in those neat flash players. But if you want to download a video there is no download link. This doesnt mean that you cant download it. Media Pirate creates a download link for you!

Media Pirate helps you to download videos from the following websites:

blip.tv break.com dailymotion.com ifilm.com media.putfile.com metacafe.com myvideo.de video.google.com vids.myspace.com vidilife.com youtube.com zippyvideos.com

To convert the video files to other formats go to:
Media Converter
This is very useful if you dont have a FLV player.

Media Pirate - The video downloader is the service that 100% works!!

Hint: It opens a new tab with the mediapirate.org website where you can find the download link.

Menu File Browser Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel. It lets you browse and open files in your home directory from the panel, without having to open a file manager. The project is not intended as replacement to proper file managers like nautilus. Sometimes you just want to open a file and dont want to have to open a file manager, browse to and open the file, then close the file manager. This Applet just saves you couple of clicks.
Main features:
- Browse and open files in your home directory from the panel
- Respects GNOME mime type options and includes mime icon in menu
- Middle clicking in a directory header will open a terminal in that directory