Free media s software for linux

Gecko Multimedia System is a complete media solution, able to play almost all media types and supports scheduled tv-recording from online tv-guides.

It is intended to replace your VCR, DVD, MP3- and CD-player into one single software-unit. It is mainly for use in Linux-systems (well, its the only system Ive tried it on).

Please note that Gecko requires VRD to be able to record television. VRD is not yet 100% functional.

mediadbs is a project that aims to produce a flexible database system for tracking and searching for multiple forms of electronic media (eg mp3, divx, ogg) distributed on multiple servers in a local network. It currently only supports mp3 format files.

media-box is a program to watch all kind of multimedia files using a computer.
It suports playing DVD video, VideoCD, various movie files, Audio CD, various music files and watching various still pictures.
Main goal of this project is to have a dedicated computer in your living room by replacing your Hi-Fi component (DVD-player, CD-player). media-box runs in a linux environment so the need for computer power is very low.
Prefered system is a computer with at least 466MHz Celeron with 128MB of ram. Disk space is minimal, it works on 1GB partition but it can sure fit on a partition of 150MB or even less.
As it considers the sound output it is considered to have a sound card with digital out capabilities, so you can easily connect your computer with a dedicated external Dolby Digital receiver, but this is optional.
Graphics card should have a TV-Out feature, so you can watch your media content on TV. For getting the remote control over the whole program, you should make a hardware receiver or you can even buy one. Just make sure it is lirc compatible.
Software used to make this hardware work:
- debian - linux distribution
- xine-lib - library to play media content
- ati.2 - ATI drivers for XFree86 4.2.1 - to get TVOut working
- alsa - SB Live! drivers to get digital out sound
- lirc - remote control software
Enhancements:
- created upgrade script so on pressing n in main window will start an upgrade
- fixed start.sh script to use the /media-box/XF86Config-4 file
- size of screen is now calculated from the width and height of the back.jpg picture (was fixed to 800x600) - beware tvout works only on 800x600.
- fixed background of movie so it is black now. Subtitles of new xine lib displayed background image.
- added new types of files to play (based on extension)
- audio
- aac
- mp4

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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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)

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 Exchange is an MP3 Jukebox appliance. It allows you to:
- merge music collections
- Play music and control the player with a browser
- Organize your music
- Automatically tag music
- Remove double tracks automatically
- Download music directly from the artists
- Share music with your friends safely and easily
And Artists to:
- Distribute music to their fans directly