Free to avi software for linux

The uc-avi plug-in is a Gimp plug-in that loads/saves uncompressed AVI files.

The plug-in loads common uncompressed AVI files into multilayer images. It saves multilayer images to uncompressed AVI. Audio is discarded, only one video stream is supported.

Compressed AVIs may be loaded using mencoder to import.

kavi2dvd is a Kommander script takes an AVI file, converts it to mpeg2 with ac3 audio and generates an .iso image ready for burning as its ouput.

Although there are plenty of scripts out there for conversion of video and authoring, this one is designed to require as little user input as possible. Choose an input .avi, select the destination folder, give the project a name and choose NTSC or PAL.

It then automates the full process of creating a dvd-video compatible image for playback on a stand-alone dvd player.

stabilize is a tool for stabilizing shaking movies.

Sometimes videos are recorded with a free hand, which produces shaky movies.

This program compares each frame with previous frames and tries to find out to which offset it should shift that frame to make the movie more stable.

Usage

Compile it:

$ g++ -o stabilize stabilize.cpp -Llib -lavformat -lavcodec -lz -I/usr/include/ffmpeg/

Run it:

$ ./stabilize test.avi | ffmpeg -f imagepipe -img pnm -i - -sameq output.avi

Thoggen project is a DVD backup utility (DVD ripper) for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+.
Note: Thoggen is still beta software, but should work fine nevertheless. Make sure you check the list of known issues.
Thoggen is designed to be easy and straight-forward to use. It attempts to hide the complexity many other transcoding tools expose and tries to offer sensible defaults that work okay for most people most of the time.
Main features:
- Easy to use, with a nice graphical user interface (GUI)
- Supports title preview, picture cropping, and picture resizing.
- Language Selection for audio track (no subtitle support yet though)
- Encodes into Ogg/Theora video
- Can encode from local directory with video DVD files
- Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework, which makes it fairly easy to add additional encoding formats/codecs in future.
Supported formats:
Ogg/Theora:- Theora video with Vorbis audio in an Ogg container (in case you have not heard of Theora before: it is basically what Vorbis is for audio - a patent-free, royalty-free codec that can be implemented by anone and is supported by recent versions of all major media players on all major platforms).
AVI/divx/mpeg4:- More formats, like MPEG4/divx/xvid in AVI etc., will be added once the core functionality has been finished and works reliably.
Thoggen is licensed under the GNU General Public license (GPL).

playvideo is a video player for svgalib that supports AVI, Quicktime (though not all codecs are supported), MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 formats. Most of the codecs are ported from xanim (or are xanim binary codecs). The parts from xanim are to be found mainly in the vidplay.c file. This makes this program subject to the xanim copyright (see README.xanim).

You can use the program for non-commercial purpose, but you need a License from Mark Podlipec for commercial use. Modified versions have included Marks copyright.

Kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating SVCD/VCD/DVD-compliant MPEG files from an AVI, MPEG, Quicktime or whatever file using transcode and mplex.
It then generates a (S)Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao.
Main features:
- Generating of the m1v/m2v und mpa-files
- Multiplexing the mpegfile
- Generating the cue/bin-files
- Burning the CDs
- Saving usual configuration data (VCD-type, CD-Size, burning speed, burning device?)
- The command lines are generated and can be edited before executing.
Enhancements:
- Sorry, some necessary fixes in the batchmode on the mplex tab.

mkiso is a script that depends on the eMoviX software to convert media files.

eMoviX is a micro (7MB) Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want. A CD burned with eMoviX will be able to boot and play automatically all of its files with MPlayer.

Supported formats are AVI (in particular DivX & XviD formats), MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, Ogg, and in general everything supported by MPlayer.