Free subtitles software for linux

ksubeditor is a DivX subtitle editor for KDE 3.x. It is able to edit and convert subtitles between different subtitle formats. It can easily change the time of the subtitle and fit it to the movie.
Main features:
- quite userfriendly interface
- support for
- vplayer format
- MicroDVD format
- SubRipper format
- SSA format
- time shifting from selected subtitle
- time shifting for all subtitles
- time shifting for one line
- converting Polish chars from windows to ISO
- deleting lines
- inserting lines
- editing subtitle
- testing edited subtitles in mplayer
- splitting subtitles into two files
- joining two files into one
- spell checking
- converting between subtitle formats
- changing subtitle fps

Voody Blue Subtitler (aka VBS) is a simple program that allows you to manually synchronize a text file with a video stream, thus creating a subtitles file.

Currently, VBS imports text-only files and producesits output in SubRip format.

VBS requires GTK+ 2.2 or newer and needs mplayer. Besides this it should run in any decent environment.

For detailed usage instructions, see the README file.

For installation and configuration details, see the INSTALL file.

For version history, see the CHANGES file.

This softwarte is released with hope that it will be useful, but with no warranty of any type at all. Use it at your own risk. You are free to distribute it as well as to modify it as long as you preserve the original code. See LICENSE file for details.

A list of planned, but still pending features, is in the TODO file.

KDE DivX subtitles editor is a good solution for people who create and edit subtitles for DivX movies.
It is able to edit,convert subtitles between different formats, and test subtitles using some linux DivX player (at present Mplayer).
Enhancements:
- After "Save As" correct name on the bar is displayed
- Some compilation problems fixed
- Fixed number of columns in new file after spliting a file
- Fixed problem with editing file created by spliting another one
- Some "segmentation fault" fixes
- Changed "Insert row under" into "Insert row above"

Jubler is a subtitle editor which can work with *.SUB and *.SRT files. Jubler lets you join, split, and recode into different framerates, delete and remove depending on specific patterns, and edit specific subtitles in place.
Through a graphical interface, it is possible to launch mplayer to test the produced subtitles.
Main features:
- It supports *.SUB and *.SRT file formats, although it is easy to extend it to support other file types.
- You can view the results with mplayer and controll the video flow with a special console. Its again easy to extend it to support more players.
- All encodings supported by Java platform are also supported here (like UTF-8). The user is able to select a list of preffered encodings in order to load the localized subtitle files.
- Splitting, joining, sorting and recoding of subtitles is supported.
- Deleting specific subtitles or subtitle patterns is possible.
- Undo/redo is possible
- The program could also be used under windows, as long as mplayer is in your PATH
- Last but not least: its open source under GNU GPL!

Sinek is a GTK+ video/audio player, capable of supporting all formats libxine supports. At the moment, this includes; Audio MPEG 1, 2, and 3, Vorbis (.ogg), Video MPEG 1 and 2, MPEG 4 (aka OpenDivX), MS MPEG 4 (aka DivX) and motion jpeg.
One of the main differences between Sinek and other popular multimedia players is that it doesnt use skins; instead, it has a standard GTK+ interface. In other words, it works with your GTK+ theme.
Main features:
- scriptable with scheme language,
- supports text subtitles,
- you can adjust font (any X font!) and placement of subtitles on the fly,
- playlist with repeat, repeat current, and shuffle options,
- configurable key bindings,
- changing the volume with the mouse wheel,
Enhancements:
- playlist.c: playlist dont repeat when repeat_list mode isnt active.
- doubleclick and play button dont remove entries from list anymore (workaround for gtk_tree_selection_selected_foreach limitation).

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.

Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine and optionally GStreamer.
Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine.
Totem player features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.
Main features:
- Play any xine or GStreamer supported file (depending on the backend chosen, defaults to xine)
- LIRC support
- Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support (also usable from a shipped LGPL library)
- DVD (with menus), VCD and Digital CD (with CDDB) playback, disc-type automatically detected
- TV-Out configuration with optional resolution switching
- 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, stereo and AC3 Passthrough audio output
- Full-screen mode (move your mouse and you get nice controls) with Xinerama, dual-head and Viewport support
- Remote operation mode to control a running Totem
- Seek and Volume controls
- Aspect ratio changing, Scaling based on the videos original size
- Full keyboard control
- Playlist with Repeat and Shuffle modes, with saving feature and dragndrop reordering
- Gnome and Nautilus integration (Totem registers the file-types, adds a menu item, uses the proxy configuration, saves sessions, and registers pnm, mms, uvox and rtsp schemes, removes playlist items from a disc thats getting ejected)
- Nice default logo
- Properties window (information about the current movie)
- Dragndrop and mousewheel actions
- Screenshot feature
- Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation control
- Visualisation plugin when playing audio-only files
- Telestrator mode using Gromit
- Video thumbnailer
- Nautilus properties page
- Works on remote displays
- Optional GTK+-only build
- Automatic external subtitle load, or manual (only on the command-line, use like: totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt)
- DVD, VCD and OGG/OGM subtitles and languages support
- Dialog for more accurate seeking
- Authentication dialogs when location requires it
- Right-to-Left languages support
- Online help (in English, German, Spanish and Russian)

Tk::Wizard::Installer is a Perl module for building-blocks for a software install wizard.

use Tk::Wizard::Installer 1.932;
my $wizard = new Tk::Wizard::Installer( -title => "Installer Test", );
$wizard->addDownloadPage(
-wait => undef,
#-on_error => sub { ... },
-no_retry => 1,
-files => {
http://www.cpan.org/ => ./cpan_index1.html,
http://www.cpan.org/ => ./cpan_index2.html,
http://www.leegoddard.net => ./author.html,
},
);
$wizard->addPage( sub {
return $wizard->blank_frame(
-title=>"Finished",
-subtitle => "Please press Finish to leave the Wizard.",
-text => ""
);
});
$wizard->Show;
MainLoop;

This module makes the first moves towards a Tk::Wizard extension to automate software installation, primarily for end-users, in the manner of Install Sheild.

If you are looking for a freeware software installer that is not dependant upon Perl, try Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/. Its so good, even Microsoft have been caught using it.