Free quicktime movies software for linux

Quicktime for Linux lets you read and write Quicktime movies using several codecs. There are many Quicktime libraries for Linux; this one emphasizes reliability and accuracy while not stressing economy.
Also included are frontends to several of the codecs which dont require Quicktime encapsulation, header dump, chunk extraction, and recovery tools.
Enhancements:
- Selectively caching GOP frames to speed up reverse playback. Library upgrades for x264 and ffmpeg.

Libquicktime is a library for reading and writing quicktime files.
Note: libquicktime is in no way related to the original quicktime software, which can be found here. You should not expect all quicktime files created by original software to be playable by libquicktime or vice versa. You might, however, be lucky in some cases.
Furthermore, its is no longer a development goal to support as many codecs as possible. Instead we want to keep things simple and provide a library, which can create reasonable compatible Quicktime and AVI files either uncompressed (for high-end or production applications) or with decent compression codecs for end user applications.
On the decoder side, the goal is that libquicktime should at least be able to decode its own files. If other decoders can be added with a reasonable amount of labour, they will be supported as well. If you are looking for a general purpose library, which supports other formats than Quicktime/AVI and many more codecs, try gmerlin_avdecoder or ffmpeg.
Main features:
- Sourcetree upgraded with autoconf/automake/libtool and all the other stuff, people like in "standard" linux libraries.
- All 3rd party libraries (jpeg, OggVorbis) were removed to reduce download size, compilation time and code duplication on users harddisks. Instead, the sytemwide installed libaries are autodetected by the configure script.
- All codecs have been moved into dynamically loadable modules. This makes it possible to distribute closed source codecs (or codecs with an incompatible license) as separate packages.
- Unlike other quicktime libraries, we are source compatible with quicktime4linux.
- The codecs themselves are also source compatible with quicktime4linux, so porting codecs between quicktime4linux and libquicktime requires only little brain load.
- Special API extensions allow access to the codec registry. Applications can get important information about the codecs, their settable parameters etc. at runtime.
- Libquicktime 0.9.4 introduced support for handling QTVR files. QTVR is a technology to store panoramas and interactive "3D pictures" (Object Movies) in Quicktime files. For more information check out this document.
- The current implementation allows developers to write applications that display and/or create QTVR V1.0 object movies and panoramas.
Although its usable there are a few limitations:
- the newer versions of the QTVR format arent supported (yet)
- no multinode support
- no abstraction of the movie structure. That means the application writer has to take care of which frame to decode when (object movies) and how to piece them together (panoramas) (see http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1036.html and http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1035.html for information about that)
- no documentation
Enhancements:
- Support for text tracks. These can be either Subtitles or Chapters.
- Lots of fixes
- gettext support, German translation.

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.

Quake 3 Movie Makers Edition is a customized Quake 3 engine for the movie making community.
It simplifies required tasks and adds new features to the engine that are related to the movie making.
Enhancements:
- Fixes TGA compatibility with VirtualDub.

MeDs Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. MeDs Movie Manager project gets the movies info from IMDb, and episode info from tv.com.
Main features:
- Unlimited size movie list
- Add, Edit, Delete database functions
- Episode functionality for series
- Quick movie filter
- Advanced search options
- List functionality
- Multi-add function (Search directories for files)
- Obtain AVI / OGM / MPEG and DVD (ifo) file info
- Automatic download of movie info from IMDb (Proxy support)
- Automatic download of episode info from tv.com (Proxy support)
- Import function (3 modes - Simple text, excel and extreme movie manager database (Tested with v4.5)
- Export to HTML (2 modes - full and simple)
- Customizable movie additional info
- Customizable database queries for statistics
- GIF, PNG and JPG cover support
- Changeable layout (Look And Feels)

Ipod MovieMaker project is a dialog windows bash script which allows you to merge *.txt subtitles with all formats of movie files and save it in avi format. You may convert all kinds of video to .mp4 which is Ipod Video compatible format.
You will be only questioned about the location of a source movie, subtitles, encoding (default WINDOWS-1250), font location (default /home/$USER/.mplayer/font/subfont.ttf), and where to save reasult .mp4 file. You can have each work done seperatly or have whole process done from hardcoding subtitles to encoding to ipod format.
Installation:
- Make sure that you have mencoder and ffmpeg compiled with libxvid, libfaac codecs enable
- Make sure you have proper true type font installed in /home/$USER/.mplayer/font directory
- Make sure you have compiled gtkpod with libfaac codec to upload movies on Ipod video
- to get this script working write this in your console
chmod 755 ipodmoviemaker
cp ipodmoviemaker /usr/bin/

XMovie was originally written as a simple, fast method to play uncompressed movies with stereo sound back when the only uncompressed movie player was xanim and the only MPEG player was MTV.

XAnim didnt play stereo sound and MTV was a $15 shareware. Hard to believe how todays applications toss movies around like nothing when just 4 years ago it was an ordeal just to play an MPEG stream.

XMovie is mainly intended for uncompressed movie playback, nonstandard output from Cinelerra, and testing decoder libraries.

Its not intended for low resolution, low bitrate internet downloads. Your luck will improve with something like M Player

6 channels of audio can be sent to a soundcard supporting 6 channel audio. More importantly, HDTV program and ATSC transport streams play back.

These streams are usually obtained through a capture board like the WinTV HD, set top box hacking, or other means. Forget about downloading HDTV moviez from the internet.

jMovieBase application is a cross-platform movie collection manager that allows you to organize your own movie collection using many jMB features and friendly interface.