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 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.

INSTALLATION:

To install this module type the following:

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

Video::OpenQuicktime is an interface to the OpenQuicktime library.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::OpenQuicktime;

my $qt = Video::OpenQuicktime->new(file=>"sample.mov");
$qt->get_video_height;
$qt->get_audio_compression;
$qt->get_audio_samplerate;

From the OpenQuicktime site, http://www.openquicktime.org:

"OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apples QuickTime(TM) popular media files on Unix-like environments. It is aim is to provide encoding, authoring and editing support as well as video playback."

OpenQuicktime is currently able to decode as well as encode video and audio streams. The Video::OpenQuicktime library currently only supports extracting diagnostic information from Quicktime files, such as video dimensions, codecs used, and play length.

I would like to add support for video and audio demux at some point, but dont have the time to develop it right now. Given sufficient user interest or free time, Ill do it. Patches are also welcome in case anyone else wants to help me out, see the contact information below.

Video::Xine is a Perl interface to libxine.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Xine;

# Create and initialize the Xine object
my $xine = Video::Xine->new(
config_file => "$ENV{HOME}/.xine/config",
);

# Load a video driver
my $video_driver = Video::Xine::Driver::Video->new($xine,"auto",1,$x11_visual);

# Create a new stream (put your video driver under $DRIVER)
my $stream = $xine->stream_new(undef,$DRIVER);

# Open a file on the stream
$stream->open(file://my/movie/file.avi)
or die "Couldnt open stream: ", $stream->get_error();

# Get the current position (0 .. 65535), position in time, and length
# of stream in milliseconds
my ($pos, $pos_time, $length_time) = $stream->get_pos_length();

# Start the stream playing
$stream->play()
or die "Couldnt play stream: ", $xine->get_error();

# Play the stream to the end
while ( $stream->get_status() == XINE_STATUS_PLAY ) {
sleep(1);
}

A perl interface to Xine, the Linux movie player. More properly, an interface to libxine, the development library. Requires installation of libxine.

Xine by itself does not provide a user interface, and neither does this interface. Instead, you must set up the window using your own windowing code, and pass the window information to Xine.

Video::TeletextDB is Perl extension to manage a telextext database.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::TeletextDB;

$tele_db = Video::TeletextDB->new(%options);
# Possible options are:
# cache_dir => $directory
# mkpath => $boolean
# umask => $mask
# creat => $boolean
# RW => $boolean
# page_versions => $number
# channel => $string
# stale_period => $seconds
# expire_period => $seconds

$access = $tele_db->access(%options);
# Possible options are:
# umask => $mask
# creat => $boolean
# RW => $boolean
# page_versions => $number
# channel => $string
# stale_period => $seconds
# expire_period => $seconds

$cache_dir = $tele_db->cache_dir;
$channel = $tele_db->channel;
$old_channel = $tele_db->channel($new_channel);
@channels = $tele_db->channels;
$nr_channels = $tele_db->channels;
$boolean = $tele_db->has_channel(?$channel?);
$db_file = $tele_db->db_file;
$lock_file = $tele_db->lock_file;
$tele_db->lock;
$page_versions= $tele_db->page_versions;
$umask = $tele_db->umask;
$old_umask = $tele_db->umask($new_umask);
$RW = $tele_db->RW;
$old_RW = $tele_db->RW($new_RW);
$stale_period = $tele_db->stale_period;
$old_stale_period = $tele_db->stale_period($new_stale_period);
$expire_period = $tele_db->expire_period;
$old_expire_period = $tele_db->expire_period($new_expire_period);
$user_data = $tele_db->user_data;
$old_user_data= $tele_db->user_data($new_user_data);

$tele_db->delete(%options);

The idea behind a teletext database is to separate the process of collecting teletext pages from the process of presentation. This makes programs both shorter (you dont have to implement the side yourre not interested in) and more flexible (you can read teletext pages long after the collector stopped running and you dont have to be tuned in to the channel you want to read).

In fact, the simple script TeleCollect coming with this package will be good enough for most teletext collection purposes, so that you can concentrate on the page processing.

This modules provides you with methods to both store and retrieve pages into a database and some rudimentary support to manage a set of databases (typically one for each channel). The pages will be stored in raw form so that a client can decide for itself how to handle things like transmission errors (there are of suggested methods provided in the module though, so you dont have to reinvent the wheel every time).

It (currently) use a Berkeley DB with an external lockfile for the actual storage. It only uses the version 1.85 features, so it should work almost everywhere. There will be one database and lockfile for each channel and all channel databases and locks will normally be collected in one directory.

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.

Whats New in This Release:

· 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.

SDL::Video is a SDL perl extension.

SYNOPSIS

$video = new SDL::Video ( -name => pr0n.mpg );

SDL::Video adds support for MPEG video to your SDL Perl application. Videos are objects bound to surfaces, whose playback is controled through the objects interface.

METHODS

SDL::Video::error() returns any error messages associated with playback
SDL::Video::audio(bool) enables or disables audio playback, (on by default)
SDL::Video::video(bool) enables or disable video playback, (on by default)
SDL::Video::loop(bool) enables or disable playback looping (off by default)
SDL::Video::volume(int) set the volume as per the mixer volume
SDL::Video:display(surface) binds the clip to a display surface
SDL::Video::scale([x,y]|[surface]|int) scales the clip by either x,y factors, scales to the image dimensions, or a single scalar.
SDL::Video::play() plays the video clip, call SDL::Video::display() before playing
SDL::Video::pause() pauses video playback
SDL::Video::stop() stops video playback
SDL::Video::rewind() resets the clip to the beginning
SDL::Video::seek(offset) seeks to a particular byte offset
SDL::Video::skip(time) skips to a particular time
SDL::Video::region(rect) takes a SDL::Rect and defines the display area
SDL::Video::frame(int) renders a specific frame to the screen
SDL::Video::info() returns a new SDL::MPEG object reflecting the current status
SDL::Video::status() returns either SMPEG_PLAYING or SMPEG_STOPPED or SMPEG_ERROR

File::Headerinfo::Video is an extractor of useful information from video files.

File::Headerinfo::Video uses Video::Info to read the headers of video clips (of various kinds) and a few audio files, and extract from them the useful information we crave.

File::Headerinfo::Video can handle all the types that Video::Info can handle, including quicktime files, mpegs, DivX, AVI and ASF files.

WWW::Google::Video is a fetch the Google Video Information.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Google::Video;

$foo=new WWW::Google::Video;

$foo->fetch(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1808273720725631796);
# The Google Video Page URL, such as http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=blahblahblah

print $foo->{url},"n"; # Google Video FLV Original File URL !!
print $foo->{length},"n"; # Video Length Information
print $foo->{name},"n"; # Video Name Information

foreach(@{ $foo->{pic} }){ # By using Reference to an Array
print $_,"n"; # To show the preview pictures.
}

The WWW::Google::Video is a class implementing a interface for fetch the Google Video Information.

To use it, you should create WWW::Google::Video object and use its method fetch(), to fetch the information of Video.

It uses LWP::Simple for making request to Google.

MMS Downloader provides a GUI to handle and save MMS streams to disk.

mms-qt lets you save MMS streams (mms://) to your disk as files. It is based on mms_client.

There is a program on the Israeli TV which i like to watch, and recently ive found out that there is an official web site hosting video parts shown previously on TV, but they were all in mms format.

Not too long after, ive found the outstanding work major mms did. Major mms wrote both a plugin for xine to watch these streams, and a command line downloader. My little idea was to take his command line downloader and wrap it with a QT GUI. So i did it.

So assuming youve found an MMS stream youd like to store on your Hard Drive, all you have to do is download it and, to use it, simply type

$ mms-qt mms://...

When the stream is done, the "Done" button will be enabled. Pressing "Cancel" in the middle will stop the download but will still save the partial file.

Thats it, simple as that.

Video::Info::FOO is a Perl module for video information.

Video::Info::FOO - what is it useful for? an example list:

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

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Info::FOO;

my $video;

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

What does the module do? What are its limitations? Is it built on top of other code? If so, what are the details and where can I get it?

Video::Info can retrieve video properties such as: height width codec fps.

SYNOPSIS

use Video::Info;

my $info = Video::Info->new(-file=>my.mpg);

$info->fps();
$info->aspect();
## ... see methods below

Video::Info is a factory class for working with video files. When you create a new Video::Info object (see methods), something like this will happen: 1) open file, determine type. See Video::Info::Magic. 2) attempt to create object of appropriate class (ie, MPEG::Info for MPEG files, RIFF::Info for AVI files). 3) Probe the file for various attributes 4) return the created object, or a Video::Info object if the appropriate class is unavailable.

Currently, Video::Info can create objects for the following filetypes:

Module Filetype
-------------------------------------------------
Video::Info::ASF ASF
MP3::Info MPEG Layer 2, MPEG Layer 3
Video::Info::MPEG MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG 2.5
Video::Info::RIFF AVI, DivX
Video::Info::Quicktime MOV, MOOV, MDAT, QT
And support is planned for:
Module Filetype
-------------------------------------------------
Video::Info::Real RealNetworks formats

Mplayer-video-thumbnailer is a shell script for thumbnails preview in nautilus.

A shell script which can ganrate thumbnails of video files in nautilus using mplayer.

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.

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.