Free multimedia controller software for linux

Multimedia Converter project provides graphical environment to take full advantage some of the possibilities the ffmpeg and MPlayer.

So help to Convert between different media formats.

IRman Controller can control Amarok using your remote control with IRman.

LiMP is a a tiny LIVE CD based linux distro, that loads into memory and works only in the memory. This is the easiest, simpler yet powerful distro that works in all computers (PIII onwards).
Linux Multimedia Player supports most of the known formats, let it be mpeg-I, or mpeg-II, or divx, or wmv,qt-mov,real video for video and for audio mp3,wav,wma, ogg, real audio. It has the auto detection of partitions (ide or sata or scsi), sound cards,video cards, network cards and supports all the the cards as of kernel 2.6.13. It identifies the Partitions and mounts in the folder START.
It has the network support, which can be configured inside the GUI. It also mounts the Windows Shares, Linux Smb shares in the folder START.
It is complete tiny OS, with menu driven option and requires no knowledge of linux. All in a embedded image file of size 35 MB that gives you the entertainment. It can be easily integrated into WINDOWS XP/2000/98/95 or in linux boot loader or boot from cdrom.
LiMP distro runs only from memory and so CDROM/DVD is free to use. LiMP is completely safe to use as it mounts the partitions (NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, REISERFS) and windows / linux shares in READONLY mode.
Computer Shutdown schedule for bed time listeners. It supports viewing encrypted DVDs (Zone set DVDs). User has to option to load his favorite language font, for viewing subtitle User can set his favorite skin for xmms as default so that it loads on startup.
It runs a vnc server and can be accessed remotely from any vnc client.
Enhancements:
- The kernel was updated to 2.6.21.1.
- ALSA was updated to 1.0.14rc3.
- Idesk, a desktop program, was added.
- Mplayer, conky, and openbox were updated.
- Xdialog was added, providing an even easier interface.
- LiMP includes compressed cache to give better performance (http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/).

PHP music player controller (PMPC) is a script that allows navigation through your music directory, and the adding of albums or single songs into a playlist. The project also allows you to play, stop, pause, and go back and forth through the playlist.
Apache needs to run as the same user that is running the music players. In other words, it probably needs to run as whatever your username is. This is a setting in /etc/httpd.conf . So, dont run this on a machine thats visible to the web, or make a user with really strict rules applying to them - so they cant run anything but an x session, desktop environment, and the music player, and cant touch much of anything but their home files.
I guess Id serve the pages out of the users home directory if I was doing that.
If you know a better way to get this to work, please let me know. I dont profess to be an apache-configuration guru, and for all I know this method is really just dumb.
If youre running apache as yourself, youll need to change the session.save_path variable in your php.ini to something that you have write access to, or chmod the directory its currently using.
PS: If amarok or xmms was working fine for you before, let me know. Ill have a chance to test them, and code the support for them here in the next couple of days.
Enhancements:
- Huge improvements were made.
- The appearance of the player interface was improved.
- Amarok is now supported.
- Directories with hyphens in their names should play correctly now.

mediaCenter is a startup center for multimedia computers that can be configured through one configuration file. mediaCenter project can be controlled by keyboard or with a remote control.

This program is intended to be a small launcherProgram for simple multimedia stations. The configuration is done in ${HOME}/.mediacenter/config.xml. If you start without any parametrization, the default one is taken from ${PREFIX}/mediaCenter/config.xml. Note that this may result in missing button images or wrong execution paths.

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.

Distributed Aide Runtime Controller is a multi-threaded Python application designed for managing AIDE installations in large heterogeneous networks.
AIDE is an open-source improvement upon the academic release of Tripwire. It can be used to detect filesystem changes in unix environments, which is useful for forensics on compromised systems and tracing illicit system configuration changes.
Darc provides a mechanism to run AIDE integrity checks across many unix systems from a single management station. It has the following features not available in a traditional AIDE installation:
- Maintaining read-only media databases on each system - not a trivial task! - is not required for day to day operations.
- Unified reporting - the admin doesnt have to read individual reports for each system.
- Integrated syslog support to notify admins when a system may have been compromised.
- Databases and configs are never written to the filesystems on the monitored hosts.
Enhancements:
- Better error handling and reporting
- HTML reports for easier navigation within the report
- Configurable timeout values for all relevant metrics - TCP connection timeouts, SFTP transfer time, AIDE run time
- Built-in support for aide database maintenance tasks (init, update) so the manual file manipulation required in 0.2 is completely eliminated.