Free video files software for linux

VideoCut project is an open source desktop application specialized for creating compositions of screenshots from video files. The project uses xine-lib and Qt-4
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This application is particularly useful for owners of digital DV video cameras and other people who use the Sony DV video format for high quality video production.

DV Assembler allows you to append multiple Sony DV files with nice looking transition effects for both audio and video. Multiple transition effects are supported, like cross-fade, zoom, blur and a flash effect.

I created DV Assembler because there are no user friendly video editing applications for Linux. Yes, Kino is promising, but its user interface is still a mess and development is slow.

DV Assembler only touches the head and tail parts of the original video files that are needed to create the transition effects. The rest of the video is left untouched, which means zero quality loss.

DV Assembler can also be used to generate video editing scripts that can be run without KDE and Kommander.

Video::Info::ASF is a Perl module for ASF files for attributes like:

-video codec
-audio codec
-frame height
-frame width
-frame count
and more!

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Info::ASF;

my $video;

$video = Video::Info::ASF->new(-file=>$filename); #like this

$video->vcodec; #video codec
$video->acodec; #audio codec
...

ASF stands for Advanced Systems Format, in case you were wondering. It used to stand for Active Streaming Format, but Microsoft decided to change it. This type of file is primarily used to store audio & video data for local or streaming playback. It can also be embedded with commands (to launch a web browser, for instance), for an "immersive" experience. ASF is similar in structure to RIFF. (See RIFF::Info). The morbidly curious can find out more below in REFERENCES.

Google Video Downloader is a Firefox extension that adds a button in the status bar. You can download the source .flv or .avi file directly in two clicks

If You:

- Would like to download files from other videohostings;
- Have DownThemAll od FlashGot;
- Would like to permanently choose preferred Google Video format.

Video::Info::MPEG is a basic MPEG bitstream attribute parser.

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use Video::Info::MPEG;

my $video = Video::Info::MPEG->new( -file => $filename );
$video->probe();

print $file->type; ## MPEG

## Audio information
print $file->acodec; ## MPEG Layer 1/2
print $file->acodecraw; ## 80
print $file->achans; ## 1
print $file->arate; ## 128000 (bits/sec)
print $file->astreams ## 1

## Video information
printf "%0.2f", $file->fps ## 29.97
print $file->height ## 240
print $file->width ## 352
print $file->vstreams ## 1
print $file->vcodec ## MPEG1
print $file->vframes ## 529
print $file->vrate ## 1000000 (bits/sec)

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
MPEG audio and video clips are ubiquitous but using Perl to programmatically collect information about these bitstreams has to date been a kludge at best.

This module parses the raw bitstreams and extracts information from the packet headers. It supports Audio, Video, and System (multiplexed audio and video) packets so it can be used on nearly every MPEG you encounter.

iPod Video Encoder is a command line tool for convenient encoding of video files for use on iPod video. iPod Video Encoder project uses the ffmpeg tool for the actual encoding.
It features recursive encoding of all files in a directory, and generating a podcast.xml file for convenient use in iTunes.
It can be used in a cron job that periodically checks directories for new files and encodes them without user intervention.
Main features:
- Encoding of single files
- Optional specification of a/v bitrates
- Recursively encode all files in a directory
- Generating a podcast.xml for convenient use in iTunes
Options:
--version show programs version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-R, --recursive Process directories recusively
-f, --force Force re-encode existing iPod videos
-t, --test Only encode first 10 seconds, to produce test videos
-e EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS
Comma separated list of input extensions. Default: avi
-i IPODEXT, --ipodext=IPODEXT
iPod extension. Default: .ipod.mp4
-b VIDEO_RATE, --video-rate=VIDEO_RATE
Video bit rate, in kbps (default: 1024)
-a AUDIO_RATE, --audio-rate=AUDIO_RATE
Audio bit rate, in kbps (128)
-W WIDTH, --width=WIDTH
Video width, in pixels (default: 320)
-H HEIGHT, --height=HEIGHT
Video height, in pixels (default: 240)
-P, --pretend Do not really encode, just print out the ffmpeg
commands which would be executed
-v, --verbose Enable verbose output
Podcast options:
-p, --podcast Generate a podcast.xml file for each directory.
--podcast-documentroot=PODCAST_DOCUMENTROOT
Podcast document root; eg. /var/data/Movies/
--podcast-baseurl=PODCAST_BASEURL
Podcast base URL; eg. http://localhost/
Enhancements:
- Only uses the -e option for processing directories.
- The default ipod extension is now _ipod.mp4 for Windows compatibility.
- The README file has been extended with information on the .ipod-encoder settings file.
- The program no longer crashes when HOME is not set on Windows.
- --width and --height parameters have been added.

Linux Video Editor provides frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 files. Video scenes are handled as thumbnails movable by drag and drop.
Final videos can be build with or without re-encoding. Tools for shrinking and DVD authoring are also available.
Enhancements:
- lvedump/lve: new options "-ts" and "-pes" to produce TS-Stream (=DVB transport stream) or PES-stream output.
- Some minor bugfixes.

Video::Info::MPEG::System is a suite of modules to probe video files for various attributes.

Previous versions of Video::Info depended on external modules, such as RIFF::Info and ASF::Info. This is no longer the case, you dont need to install them. All the functionality is now included with the Video::Info distribution.

To contribute, use Video::Info::FOO as a template to write a module, and email it to the Allen Day. Also see t/FOO.t as an example test script to verify the sanity of your code.

Installation:

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test (optional)
make install