Free video shareware software for linux

GNOME Video Arcade is a simple xmame front-end for the GNOME Desktop Environment.

Just getting this project off the ground. Im hoping to create a simple and easy-to-use xmame front-end that is not just another mame32 clone.

This project is aimed at casual gamers like myself that just want to play classic arcade games on their desktop.

I like using Amarok for managing my podcasts but I wasnt able to play my video podcasts.

Amarok Video Player adds a PlayVideo/Play menu item to the context menu which runs KMPlayer.

Edit the script to change KMplayer to another video player.

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 Related Picture Editor is a gtk2 GUI frontend for batch-manipulating images using ImageMagick, MPlayer and transcode.

Its also the name of the infamous VRPE Team who paid me for hacking this together quickly because they needed it.

The name

Why "video related picture encoder" ? Because I didnt find a better name :) Any suggestions are welcome. With v0.1 the project was called "gFader" because all it did was "morphing" single frames to slow-down a video (giving a "fade-like effect") as batch-job with nice gui so poor Windows users could use it ;) My customer then wanted gFader to also do crop and scaling of multiple image files which rendered "gFader" as projectname useless. So i tried to make up some general name, which still fits if the application-range grows.

What can it do?

VRPE is able to do batch image-processing on a large set of images providing a way to move between images and giving a preview of the current, the previous and the next frame all with a nice GUI.

Different effects can be applied to the image-set (e.g morph, crop). Some of the effects support variable parameters so an effect can change with the image position.

VRPE can load several image formats (the ones supported by gtk2 and ImageMagick) or can convert almost any video to single frames using mplayer. It exports single images but also can render a videofile using mencoder or transcode. You can even launch mplayer to look at what youve done.

Other Features are:

Tooltip explainations almost everywhere
Nice wiki
quite fast

Drawbacks at this time:

lousy hacked together code
somewhat static filename handling
no "project" cababilities (images from previous sessions get imported if directory is not cleared etc.)
morph-curve gets lost
many more...

Want to watch Youtube video, but you dont have Flash plugin? (ex: gnu/linux ppc os), so try this great script to watch STREAMING VIDEOS from Youtube! You dont need to download video on your disk, you can stream directly the FLV videos from Youtube!

MPlayer Youtube Video Streamer lets you watch YouTube videos even if you dont have the flash plugin.

Usage: myvs [options] video_url

Options:

-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --stream do not download video, but stream directly by mplayer
-C, --cache set a cache of 300k, for slow connection
-c, --cycle cycle 20 times while youtube redirect to vo.llnwd.net (that streams .flv)
-t, --title use title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-O, --streamonly Force the script to stream only, if it doesnt find a valid stream server simply quit

Who to use it with Firefox:

Now I will explain you how to get it working with Firefox,

First we need a Firefox extension called: Lanchy,
this extension give us the ability to open directly from Firefox Youtube video on youtube webpage (not on all webpages that have a youtube video!

You ALWAYS need the youtube videos webpage! After you have installed Launchy (from firefoxs addon site), restart Firefox, now it will ask you to insert a Launchys button on your toolbar (DO IT! so open Youtube videos will be very simply), after that go on the preferences/option of this extension and uncheck the option: "search automatically programs".

Now copy the "launchy.xml" file that you found on the package and copy it on your directory:
".mozilla/firefox/YOUR_ID.default/chrome/" , after copied it, please dont forget to edit it with your myvs.py COMPLETE PATH, and add or delete oppurtune option to pass to the script.

Now restart again firefox an watch if it recognise the command (by pressing the G).

Go on youtube.com, open a video webpage, click on the G button-> Open in Mplayer Youtube Video Streamer.

video-entropyd is a program to add entropy data from video4linux devices to the kernel random driver.
For security reasons (when doing network traffic or generating secure keys for example) one wants as much entropy-data in the kernel random-driver as possible. The random-driver takes partially care for this. But in situations in where theres a lot of demand for entropy-data, it might not be able to gather enough entropy-data by itself.
Thats where this program is for: adding entropy-data to the kernel-driver. It does that by fetching 2 images from a video4linux-device (with a random delay in between), calculating the difference between those two and then calculating the number of information-bits in that data. After that, the data with the number-of-entropy-bits is submitted to the kernel-random-driver.
After that, the program exits (when run from crontab) or sleeps a random time before redoing the same process.
Enhancements:
- This version checks the quality of the data it feeds to the /dev/random-device to see if the data is really random.
- Extra logging has been added.

Video::Frequencies is a Perl module that has many, many frequency constants and lists.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Frequencies;

while (my($name,$list) = each %CHANLIST) {
print "$namen";
while (my($channel,$freq) = each %$list) {
printf " %-4s %9dn", $channel, $freq;
}
print "n";
}

This module exports (yes, exports!) frequency constants as well as hashes with channel => frequency relations for digital and analog video and audio broadcast. Another, shorter way to put it is "worldwide channel/frequency list". All frequencies are given in kHz.

Its a good idea to use perldoc -m Video::Frequencies to get an idea on how the various constants and lists look like.