Free movie file shrinker software for linux

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)

jsp File Browser is an easy to use and easy to install file browser java server page. This JSP program allows remote web-based file access and manipulation.
Main features:
- Create, copy, move, rename and delete files and directories
- View Files (pictures, movies, pdf, html,...)
- Edit textfiles
- Upload files to the server (Status via Upload monitor)
- Download files from the server
- Download groups of files and folders as a single zip file that is created on the fly
- Execute native commands on the server (e.g ls, tar, chmod,...)
- View entries and unpack zip, jar, war and gz files on the server
- Just one file, very easy to install (in fact, just copy it to the server)
- Customizable layout via css file
- Restrict file access via black or whitelist
It should work with any JSP1.1 compatible server(e.g. Tomcat>=3.0), I tested it on Tomcat 4.0, Resin 2.1.7 and Jetty.
Enhancements:
- A read-only version was added.
- It is now also usable as an upload-center.
- Some UI enhancements were made, like shortkeys and a better layout.
- It should also load a bit faster.

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.

movieinfo is a Perl module created to dump information about movie file(s).

USAGE

movieinfo < movie files[s] >

Largely based around mplayers midentify script this will dump information about various formats of movie file (depending on what codecs you have installed for mplayer).

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.

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

SYNOPSIS

my $mi = Movie::Info->new || die "Couldnt find an mplayer to usen";

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
my %info = $mi->info($file) || warn "Couldnt read info from $filen" && next;
print "$file (WxH) - $info{width}x$info{height}n";

}

Movie::Info is a thin layer around MPlayers --identify command line flag. As such it can only give you as much information as Mplayer is able to give you which is down to the quality and number of codecs you have installed.
MPlayer is available from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

This module is largely based on the midentify script shipped with MPlayer.

METHODS

new [path to mplayer]

Returns a new Movie::Info instance or undef if it cant find an mplayer binary.
To find a binary it looks in three places - firstly if youve passed in a path to look at it checks there, secondly at the environment variable $MOVIE_INFO_MPLAYER_PATH and then finally it searches your $PATH like the standard which command in Unix.

info < filename >

Returns a hash representing all the meta data we can garner about file.
Returns undef if it cant read the file.