Free movies software for linux

WWW::Yahoo::Movies is a Perl extension to get Yahoo! Movies information.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Yahoo::Movies;

my $movie = new WWW::Yahoo::Movies();

print "TITLE: ".$movie->title." - ".$movie->year."n";

WWW::Yahoo::Movies is Perl interface to the Yahoo! Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com/). Sometimes IMDB doesnt have full information about movie (plot summary, cover etc). In that case its good idea to have another place to get movie info.

Also, there are many Perl extensions for Yahoo! in the CPAN. Hope WWW::Yahoo::Movies will be useful as well!

lzMovieDB provides a Web-based database for movies and series.
lzMovieDB is an PHP/MySQL Database script to sort and archive movies and series.
It grabs the user rating and movie cover from IMDB (Internet Movie Database => www.imdb.com).
Main features:
- Categorys
- show newest entrys
- search function
- sort by genre
- two languages (english,german)
- templates
- IMDB rating
- IMDB cover

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).

vMovieDB project is a movies collection manager for GNOME desktop. Its GTK+ 2.x, application writen on C, created according to Gnome-HIG standarts, vMovieDB fits perfectly in GNOME Desktop Enviroment.
Main features:
- Play selected movie with your favorite video player.
- Manage various types of information for your movies: title, year, media type, quality, subtitles, location, genre and movie image.
- Genre editor.
- Export your movies to html document.
- Export movies to text document.
- Search for selected movie on ImDB.com.
vMovieDB have fast and light database based on XML.

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.

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.

jasciimovie plays ASCII movies - sequences of digitized video converted into an ASCII representation - in a webbrowser via Java.

An ascii-movie is a plain text file of screens seperated by escape codes for clearing the screen (in hex notation 1B 5B 48 1B 5B 4A).

These ascii-movies can get produced by the asciivideo sample program that is
included with the "libbgrab" package by me.

The movie files have to be compressed with "gzip -9" which saves incredible
amounts of space.

Compilation and Usage:

- Prerequisites: JDK 1.1.x+ installed and in the path
- To compile type: make
- To test: fire up a java-capable browser with the file jasciimovie.html

See the file jasciimovie.html for how to incorporate the applet in your webpage.

Configurable parameters are: the filename (the movie file must be in the same directory as the .html file), the fontsize (usable are 8,10,12,14), a flag of the movies gets repeated at the end, the frame rate and the colors.

The program tries to center the ascii-movie within the applet.

A copyright message is beeing displayed for 2 seconds at the beginning of playback.

A sample movie (cfilm.txt.gz) is included - look at the file also with "zless cfilm.txt.gz" to see the individual frames.

Keep the image files

back.gif
copyright.gif
pause.gif
stop.gif

also in the same directory as the .html file.

Videotrans is a set of scripts that convert a movie file in any format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all the necessary conversions automatically. Videotrans provides an automatic DVD menu generator.
Videotrans has the following programs available:
movie-to-dvd
The movie-to-dvd program takes one or more input files and converts them into a separate MPEG2 video stream and a separate MP2 or AC3 audio stream.
This program takes care of all the necessary conversions, such as framerate adjustment, audio adjustment, zooming/shrinking for DVD frame sizes, etcetera. The program can determine which conversions are necessary on its own, no user intervention is required (but of course, it is possible).
When making a DVD, youll first convert all the movies that you want to put on the DVD into the MPEG2 video and MP2 or AC3 audio streams. Later, youll combine these with the movie-title program into a complete DVD.
movie-title
The movie-title program takes one or more video files that were converted by the movie-to-dvd program and a special title sequence that was produced by movie-make-title and combines all of these into a menu from which the viewer of the DVD can choose which movie he or she wants to watch.
The menu is created by displaying the title sequence in the background, with animated picture-in-picture versions of all the movies on top of that. The creator has the option of supplying information about the movies. This information can be viewed from the menu as well, on a movie-per-movie basis.
The program also generates an XML file for use with dvdauthor, the program that is used to actually create the DVD image that you will burn onto a DVD disc. The program tells you how to run dvdauthor to do the processing for you.
movie-make-title
The movie-make-title program is used to create a background movie and an audio track for DVD menus.
The movie-make-title program takes a single movie and cuts a specified part of out it. It then converts this piece of the movie into separate frames and saves the audio track in a WAV file for you.
Youll have to manually view all the frames and throw away those that you do not want in the title sequence of your DVD (the first few frames and the last few frames). Its not possible to automatically cut out the piece of the movie that you want exactly. I recommend xv for this purpose, although any image viewer that understands JPEG picture files will do.
Also, youll have to process the WAV audio file by hand, to cut out exactly that audio track that you want to hear when the menu is displayed. The movie-title program will make sure that the audio track lasts exactly as long as the movie part that you cut out does. This is to compensate for possible changes in the video frame rate and to correct small mistakes. I personally find sweep a very useful graphical audio processor for this purpose. Sweep can be downloaded at http://sweep.sourceforge.net/.
movie-rip-tv.com
The movie-rip-tv.com program is a convenience program that I personally use to gather interesting information about TV series. Given the name of a series (such as Star Trek Enterprise), a season number and an episode number, this program will create an information file in the correct format for use with the movie-title program. The movie-title program will then be able to display the episodes name in the menu and provide an information button which leads to the generated information (such as the director, the guest stars list, the description of the particular episode, etcetera).
movie-compare-dvd
The movie-compare-dvd program can be used after burning a DVD image to a DVD disc to verify whether all the data was written onto the disc intact. The program takes the on-filesytem copy and the on-DVD copy and compares the checksums of the files on both to find any differences.
Usage:
If you want to start quickly with these programs, and you have a couple of movies that you want to put onto a DVD, try this (assuming that your TV standard is PAL, otherwise specify ntsc instead of pal everywhere that its used):
movie-to-dvd -m pal movie1.avi movie2.avi movie3.avi
movie-make-title -o title -m pal -s 0 -e 60 -m pal movie1.avi
movie-title -o title.vob -t title movie1.m2v movie2.m2v movie3.m2v
dvdauthor -o dvd_directory -x title.vob-dvdauthor.xml
a_command_to_burn_a_dvd_from dvd_directory
In case you dont want a selection menu, you may also try:
movie-to-dvd -m pal -M movie1.avi movie2.avi movie3.avi
dvdauthor -o dvd_directory movie1.vob
dvdauthor -o dvd_directory movie2.vob
dvdauthor -o dvd_directory movie3.vob
dvdauthor -o dvd_directory -T
a_command_to_burn_a_dvd_from dvd_directory
In this case, youll have to use the DVD players navigation controls to get to the various movies on the DVD.
Enhancements:
- All sorts of clean-up was done.
- Some long-waiting feature requests have been implemented.
- In general, the program should work on more systems now.