Free multimedia software for linux

Mulimidix is a small Linux distribution for building a PC-based set-top box and multimedia player system to use on tv. Currently it supports:
- Digital TV
- Digital TV
- Video and Audio Playback
- Videotext
- DVD Playback and Navigation (Non CSS)
- Audio-CDs
- Network Support (NFS / Samba)
- Image Viewer
- LCD Frontpanel Support
- Remote Control Support
- and many, many more features

MoviX2 is a small Linux distro on CD aimed at playing multimedia: when you boot your PC with the MoviX2 CD the distro should be able to start X-windows and launch gmplayer, the GUI interface to mplayer, so that you are left with a nice user-friendly interface you can control by your mouse.

At that point you can safely remove the MoviX2 CD and play all multimedia files you want: DVD [no zone constraint], VCD, DivX, avi, mpg, mp3, ogg etc.

The idea of MoviX2 came to solve two different problems arising from MoviX.
First of all with MoviX you cannot watch DVDs, mainly because you have no space to copy vob files in a 700MB MoviX CD.

Furthermore, those of you who have already a big archive of multimedia CDs would probably not happy at the idea of "MoviX-ing" them all.

MoviX2 solves both problems: it is not made to be embedded with the movie in a CD but just to be loaded in a PC to transform it in a true MultiMedia Box, so after that you can extract from your CD/DVD-ROM the MoviX2 CD and insert & play every DVD/VCD/CD you have around.

So remember: MoviX2 is not an "improved" version of MoviX nor a replacement for it! It has a totally different philosophy behind, the mplayer binary is compiled with different options and it is used for different purposes.

The name is similar because anyway they are both related to Unix and movies :-)
The exponent on the X of MoviX2 is there to indicate that there are two Xs in MoviX2: one is the X of Unix and the other is the X of XFree86 :-)

MinDia is an application for creating, modifying, and presenting multimedia slide shows. Slide shows can contain multimedia elements like images, sounds, and text.
In addition to displaying on screen, it can control Rollei slide projectors (Rolleivision 35 twin digital P and Rolleivision twin msc 3x0 P) via a serial port.
Enhancements:
New features:
- button for switching to fullscreen modus
- automatic language detection
- help dialog improved (find text implemented)
Bugfixes and improvements:
- new directory structure for project
- small bugfixes (QString casts)
- bugfixes in playinfo dialog
- linux version only
- improved configure script (better tmake/qmake and python detection)
- bugfix in installation script (--prefix handling now correct)
- uninstall implemented
- compile problems resolved for newer Qt versions
- source and binary rpm package for SuSE 8.2 available

This is the first public release of PoMP. We develop an algorithm which minimizes the power consumption for multimedia data playback. We implement the algorithm in mpeg2dec. PoMP uses library of mpeg2dec.

You have to install mpeg2dec to execute PoMP. PoMP controls the disk spindle via standard ATA-4 command. At this moment, we only release Linux binary. The disk scheduling algorithm of PoMP v.0.1 is optimized for IBM microdrive DMDM 10340.

PoMP is tested with IBM micro drive attached via IDE interface(ATA-4). You can type the command as follows. Assume that Microdrive is /dev/hde.

$ ./mpeg2dec -b 1024 /mnt/microdrive/santafe.mpeg /dev/hde

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.

IOSN Live CD is an bootable CD that boots into a usable and fully featured Linux Desktop. In addition to standard FOSS productivity and multimedia applications, it is bundled with a User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop in print and multimedia formats as well as several IOSN Free/Open Source Software Primers.

Note: This is a beta release.

FOBS is a set of object oriented wrappers upon ffmpeg library to work with multimedia files. It provides an easy-to- use API and a JMF PlugIn for integrating support for ffmpeg format/codecs into all JMF applications. It is released under the LGPL license.
Main features:
- Lots of bug fixes. Improved stability
- Improved Video/Audio playback performance
- Support for some new codecs (h264 (libx264), theora (libtheora), xvid (libxvidcore), etc.)
- Improved Audio support (OGG, M4A, MP3, etc.)

Derbrill Tutorials are Free Tutorials For Writing Games and Multimedia Applications in Runtime Revolution with ArcadeEngine.

The tutorials come in a visually appealing e-book format which is both easy to read and use, the range of topics covered includes:

* The basics of Revolution such as: stacks, cards, scripts, messages and timers
* How to use geometric properties such as distances, angles and intersection rectangles
* Understanding and using different movements including linear, polygonal, circular and elliptic
* Advanced use of images
* Using the built-in collision detection