Free movie file formats software for linux

File::Format::RIFF is a Perl module to Resource Interchange File Format/RIFF files.

SYNOPSIS

use File::Format::RIFF;

open( IN, file ) or die "Could not open file: $!";
my ( $riff1 ) = File::Format::RIFF->read( *IN );
close( IN );
$riff1->dump;

my ( $riff2 ) = new File::Format::RIFF( TYPE );
foreach my $chunk ( $riff1->data )
{
next if ( $chunk->id eq LIST );
$riff2->addChunk( $chunk->id, $chunk->data );
}
open( OUT, ">otherfile" ) or die "Could not open file: $!";
$riff2->write( *OUT );
close( OUT );

File::Format::RIFF provides an implementation of the Resource Interchange File Format. You can read, manipulate, and write RIFF files.

CONSTRUCTORS

$riff = new File::Format::RIFF( $type, $data );

Creates a new File::Format::RIFF object. $type is a four character code that identifies the type of this particular RIFF file. Certain types are defined to have a format, specifying which chunks must appear (e.g., WAVE files). If $type is not specified, it defaults to (four spaces). $data must be an array reference containing some number of RIFF lists and/or RIFF chunks. If $data is undef or not specified, then the new RIFF object is initialized empty.

$riff = File::Format::RIFF->read( $fh, $filesize );

Reads and parses an existing RIFF file from the given filehandle $fh. An exception will be thrown if the file is not a valid RIFF file. $filesize controls one aspect of the file format checking -- if $filesize is not specified, then stat will be called on $fh to determine how much data to expect. You may explicitly specify how much data to expect by passing in that value as $filesize. In either case, the amount of data read will be checked to make sure it matches the amount expected. Otherwise, it will throw an exception. If you do not wish it to make this check, pass in undef for $filesize.

Please note, if you wish to read an "in memory" filehandle, such as by doing this: open( $fh, read( $fh, $filesize );

The read constructor may also be used as a method. If used in this manner, then all existing data contained in $riff will be discarded, and replaced by the contents read from $fh.

$riff->write( $fh );

Outputs a properly-formatted RIFF file to the given filehandle $fh.

MovieSlave is a very simple cross-platform (Windows, Linux) movie manager.

MovieSlave project can automatically fetch movie details (tagline, runtime, rate, year, plot, director) from the IMDb.

From its clean user interface you can easily add, edit, delete and search for any title without being lost in useless options.

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)

mOEvIEs is a low-dependency movie database program.

mOEvIEs is easy to use, and doesnt require a database server to be installed like most programs do.

3gp movie wizard is a small perl/kommander script that helps you to convert almost any movie format to 3gp movie, suitable for watching on the modern mobile phones (tested only on Motorola V360 but should work with any mobile with 3gp support and 176 pixel wide screen).

It should be extremely easy to use, yet offer advanced options such as a good subtitle support and video equalizer.

RMovie is a Ruby extension for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files.

RMovie can access many video formats (.mov, .avi, .mpg, .wmv, etc.) and can output movie frames to RMagick as images.

Installation:

# build the quadrupel objects
cd quadrupel
make
cd ..

# build the rmovie extension
ruby extconf.rb
make

# install extension
[ become root ]
make install