Amnon82
20th August 2006, 15:34
This should be a living tools-list for video tools for linux. Most of the tools working only on 32bit. Feel free to add programs to this list. Please report me also dead links.
DVD Ripping Programs
DVD2HDD
Description: A DVDDecrypter-Clone for Linux. coded by me
Link: Homepage (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/)
DVDRipOMatic
Description: Translate movie from DVD to XviD format
Link: Homepage (http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net/view.php/page/Voorpagina)
dvdbackup
Description: rips DVD to harddisk
Links: Download (http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/download.shtml) - Homepage (http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/)
gbDVDenc
Description: rip and encode DVD into mpeg files
Link: Homepage (http://sakya.altervista.org/gbdvdenc/index.html)
k9copy
Description: A small utility which allows the copy of DVD9 to a DVD5 on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream.
Link: Homepage (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/)
kdvdbackup
Description: backing up movie DVD's to hard disk. It uses the libdvdread and libdvdnav library
Link: Homepage (http://aperitto.byethost14.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27)
ldvd
Description: DVD backup tool with GUI
Link: Homepage (http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/) - Link seems outdated
lxCopy 2k6
Description: LxCopy 2k6 is created by scatman. He coded it on debian. Now I did a compile and uploaded it to one of my homepages. It backups your DVDs from DVD9 to DVD5 using transcode, vamps, dvdauthor. The compile went fine, but till now I can't get it to work. Please try it your self and tell me.
Links: Homepage (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/) - Forum (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=115233)
lxdvdrip
Description: command line rip, author, preview, burn
Link: Homepage (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip)
ogmrip
Description: an application/libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI or OGM files. Relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc and lame.
Link: Homepage (http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/)
subtitleripper
Description: tools to extract DVD-subtitles
Links: Homepage (http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/) - Download (http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitleripper)
streamdvd
Description: fastbackup to DVD on fly – can handle DVD9 to DVD5
Link: Homepage (http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html)
thoggen
Description: A DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+
Link: Homepage (http://thoggen.net/)
VanRed
Description: (eVaporate and Reauthor DVDs) is an application which makes it possible to copy the main movie from a DVD to your hard disc and which allows you to remove certain audio and subtitle streams and evaporates (requant) if necessary the video stream.
Link: Homepage (http://sourceforge.net/projects/charemma)
Video-DVDRip
Description: Also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode
Link: Homepage (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/)
vobcopy
Description: copies vob files to hard disk
Link: Homepage (http://vobcopy.org/projects/c/c.shtml)
DVD Shrinking Programs
dvdshrink
Description: xdvdshrink: BASH and Perl-Gtk2 to create archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs] [It backus up only one user selectable video track, audio stream, and subtitles
Link: Homepage (http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/) - GroupID (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133818)
k9copy
Description: A small utility which allows the copy of DVD9 to a DVD5 on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream
Link: Homepage (http://k9copy.free.fr/)
klvemkdvd
Description: Front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files] [It backs up only one user selectable video track, and one user selectable audio stream
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html)
ldvd
Description: DVD backup tool with GUI
Link: Homepage (http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/) - link seems outdated
vamps-tools
Description: Set of utilities to help duplicate/requantize DVD on the fly. Main tool is both a resize factor calculator and a dvdauthor configuration file generator.
Link: Homepage (http://vamps-tools.sourceforge.net/) - There are no downloads available (yet) for this program, as the project hasn't released any files
Video-DVDRip
Description: Also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode
Link: Homepage (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/)
DVD Authoring Programs
DV Slideshow
Description: Creates slideshows from photos, adds music – stores in Sony DV format [Not yet released]
Link: Homepage (http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVSlideshow)
dvd-slideshow
Description: Create standard DVD video from a batch of pictures
Links: Homepage (http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/)
- lxdvdrip [command line rip, author, preview, burn] (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=lxdvdrip)
dvdauthor
Description: Generates a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player
Link: Homepage (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/)
DVDAuthorWizard
Description: Create video DVD with multiple titles & menu
Link: Homepage (http://dvdauthorwizard.sourceforge.net)
dvdstyler
Description: Frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu
Link: Homepage (http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs-linux.html)
dvdwizard
Description: Wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu's. Needs dvdauthor - No home URL but there is a download for the script.
Link: Download (http://www.wershofen.de/downloads/dvdwizard.tar.gz)
klvemkdvd
Description: Front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html)
kmediafactory
Description: Authoring done by dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick
Link: Homepage (http://susku.pyhaselka.fi/damu/software/kmediafactory/)
lvemkdvd
Description: Linux video editor - part of lve package
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/)
pgcedit
Description: A DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure
Link: Homepage (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/)
polidori
Description: A DVD Authoring System for Gnome and Linux. It integrates several command line tools (dvdauthor, dvdrtools, ogle, etc) already available for Linux
Link: Homepage (http://polidori.sourceforge.net/)
qdvdauthor
Description: Gui frontend for dvd-author and dvd-slideshow
Link: Homepage (http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/)
tovid
Description: A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring.
Link: Homepage (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/)
varsha
Description: Java frontend to dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, mjpegtools etc...
Link: Homepage (http://varsha.sourceforge.net/)
Videotrans
Description: A set of scripts that convert a movie file in any format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all the necessary conversions automatically. An automatic DVD menu generator is also provided.
Link: Homepage (http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/)
VCD/SVCD
kavi2svcd
Description: GUI frontend to transcode, mplex, vcdimager, cdrdao for creating VCD and SVCD
Links: Link: Homepage (http://www.cornelinux.de/web/linux/kavi2svcd/index-english.html) - Download (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73070)
libvcd
Description: VCD/SVCD image mastering/ripping tool] [part of vcdimager
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdimager.org/)
tovid
Description: A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring.
Link: Homepage (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/)
vcdeasy
Description: (commercial) VCD/SVCD authoring tool to play/watch videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and audio files (music, audio comments,...) directly on most home DVD players.
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdeasy.org/)
vcdimager
Description: VCD/SVCD authoring software]
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdimager.org/)
DVD Tools
avidemux
Description: Intended (falls short) as linux virtualdub clone, that can also encode mpeg1/2
Link: Homepage (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)
bitterbpp
Description: bitterbpp is a GUI interface for MPlayer, transcoding DVD titles (video, audio, and subtitles) to Matroska file format
Link: Homepage (http://www.derekfrye.com/bitterbpp/)
ffmpeg
Description: fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder
Link: Homepage (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php)
gmencoder
Description: A gnome-2 front-end to mplayer/mencoder. Supports postprocesing, cropping, scaling, subtitles ripping, multiple passes for encoding
Link: Homepage (http://gmencoder.sourceforge.net/)
kmenc15
Description: A Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend designed to be a VirtualDub replacement for Linux. Useful for editing and encoding AVIs. It does not support opening of MPEGs. Allows cutting and merging at exact frames, applying any MPlayer/MEncoder filter, with preview.
Link: Homepage (http://kmenc15.sourceforge.net/)
Konverter
Description: A KDE MEncoder frontend for video conversions, scaling and cropping
Link: Homepage (http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/)
libdvdcss2
Description: A library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device and not bother about the decryption
Link: Homepage (http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html)
libdvdnav
Description: provides support to applications wishing to make use of advanced DVD features (menus)
Link: Homepage (http://dvd.sourceforge.net/)
libdvdread
Description: provides a foundation for reading DVD-Video images
Link: Homepage (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml)
libmpeg2
Description: a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder (for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 video streams)
Link: Homepage (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/)
lve
Description: LVE provides frame and GOP editing of MPEG1/2 elementary ("ES") and program streams ("PS"), including VOB format
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/)
mjpegtools
Description: a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux
Link: Homepage (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
mediacity
Description: a digital photo organizer, a tool for creating slideshows you can put on a Web page and a tool for authoring video-DVDs. Requires Java5
Link: Homepage (http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html)
Can run by clicking on this java application link: Download (http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp)
mkdvd
Description: a front-end for several programs which simplifies converting most kinds of movies to a DVD. While mkdvd is not a graphical front-end, it automates the entire task of creating a DVD into one simple command. - external programs used by mkdvd: mplayer, dvdauthor, mkisofs, cdrecord-prodvd, dvd+rw-tools, ffmpeg, toolame, pike
Links: Homepage (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html) - mkdvd forum: Link: Forum (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacker/viewforum.php?f=4) - Development version (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd-beta.tgz)
mkvtoolnix
Description: A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files. They do for Matroska what the OGMtools do for the OGM format.
Link: Homepage (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/)
mpgtx
Description: A command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox
Link: Homepage (http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/)
transcode
Description: A text-console video stream processing tool for decoding and encoding
Links: Homepage (http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode) - Mirror (http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/transcode) - win32 codecs (media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats) (http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html)
winki the ripper
Description: Program for video encoding. A graphical frontend for GNOME written in python to command line tools like mencoder, mplayer, mkvtoolnix, oggenc and lsdvd. - Limitation: it cannot use external audio nor subtitles files
Link: Homepage (http://www.winki-the-ripper.de/)
Video Editors
Cinelerra
Description: for capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video
Link: Homepage (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3/)
KDEnlive
Description: A Non-linear editor
Link: Homepage (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)
kino
Description: Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. Features integration with IEEE 1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in AVI format in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings
Link: Homepage (http://kino.schirmacher.de/)
MainActor + other packages
Description: capture, edit and export videos with a computer
Link: Homepage (http://www.mainconcept.com/index_flash.shtml)
Media Players
gxine
Description: a GTK+ based GUI for the libxine video player library
Link: Homepage (http://xinehq.de/)
kaffeine
Description: A xine-based Media Player for KDE3
Link: Homepage (http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/)
libxine
Description: frontend video and multimediaplayer, supports DVD, MPEG, AVI, DivX, VCD, Quicktime
Link: Homepage (http://xinehq.de/)
mplayer
Description: MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX
Link: Homepage (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html)
ogle
Description: The first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus
Link: Homepage (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml)
totem
Description: The official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a
playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.
Link: Homepage (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/)
vlc
Description: VideoLAN Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
Link: Homepage (http://www.videolan.org/)
DVD Ripping Programs
DVD2HDD
Description: A DVDDecrypter-Clone for Linux. coded by me
Link: Homepage (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/)
DVDRipOMatic
Description: Translate movie from DVD to XviD format
Link: Homepage (http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net/view.php/page/Voorpagina)
dvdbackup
Description: rips DVD to harddisk
Links: Download (http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/download.shtml) - Homepage (http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/)
gbDVDenc
Description: rip and encode DVD into mpeg files
Link: Homepage (http://sakya.altervista.org/gbdvdenc/index.html)
k9copy
Description: A small utility which allows the copy of DVD9 to a DVD5 on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream.
Link: Homepage (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/)
kdvdbackup
Description: backing up movie DVD's to hard disk. It uses the libdvdread and libdvdnav library
Link: Homepage (http://aperitto.byethost14.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27)
ldvd
Description: DVD backup tool with GUI
Link: Homepage (http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/) - Link seems outdated
lxCopy 2k6
Description: LxCopy 2k6 is created by scatman. He coded it on debian. Now I did a compile and uploaded it to one of my homepages. It backups your DVDs from DVD9 to DVD5 using transcode, vamps, dvdauthor. The compile went fine, but till now I can't get it to work. Please try it your self and tell me.
Links: Homepage (http://home.arcor.de/amsoft-linux-department/) - Forum (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=115233)
lxdvdrip
Description: command line rip, author, preview, burn
Link: Homepage (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip)
ogmrip
Description: an application/libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI or OGM files. Relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc and lame.
Link: Homepage (http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/)
subtitleripper
Description: tools to extract DVD-subtitles
Links: Homepage (http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/) - Download (http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitleripper)
streamdvd
Description: fastbackup to DVD on fly – can handle DVD9 to DVD5
Link: Homepage (http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html)
thoggen
Description: A DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+
Link: Homepage (http://thoggen.net/)
VanRed
Description: (eVaporate and Reauthor DVDs) is an application which makes it possible to copy the main movie from a DVD to your hard disc and which allows you to remove certain audio and subtitle streams and evaporates (requant) if necessary the video stream.
Link: Homepage (http://sourceforge.net/projects/charemma)
Video-DVDRip
Description: Also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode
Link: Homepage (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/)
vobcopy
Description: copies vob files to hard disk
Link: Homepage (http://vobcopy.org/projects/c/c.shtml)
DVD Shrinking Programs
dvdshrink
Description: xdvdshrink: BASH and Perl-Gtk2 to create archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs] [It backus up only one user selectable video track, audio stream, and subtitles
Link: Homepage (http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/) - GroupID (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133818)
k9copy
Description: A small utility which allows the copy of DVD9 to a DVD5 on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream
Link: Homepage (http://k9copy.free.fr/)
klvemkdvd
Description: Front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files] [It backs up only one user selectable video track, and one user selectable audio stream
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html)
ldvd
Description: DVD backup tool with GUI
Link: Homepage (http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/) - link seems outdated
vamps-tools
Description: Set of utilities to help duplicate/requantize DVD on the fly. Main tool is both a resize factor calculator and a dvdauthor configuration file generator.
Link: Homepage (http://vamps-tools.sourceforge.net/) - There are no downloads available (yet) for this program, as the project hasn't released any files
Video-DVDRip
Description: Also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode
Link: Homepage (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/)
DVD Authoring Programs
DV Slideshow
Description: Creates slideshows from photos, adds music – stores in Sony DV format [Not yet released]
Link: Homepage (http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVSlideshow)
dvd-slideshow
Description: Create standard DVD video from a batch of pictures
Links: Homepage (http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/)
- lxdvdrip [command line rip, author, preview, burn] (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=lxdvdrip)
dvdauthor
Description: Generates a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player
Link: Homepage (http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/)
DVDAuthorWizard
Description: Create video DVD with multiple titles & menu
Link: Homepage (http://dvdauthorwizard.sourceforge.net)
dvdstyler
Description: Frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu
Link: Homepage (http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs-linux.html)
dvdwizard
Description: Wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu's. Needs dvdauthor - No home URL but there is a download for the script.
Link: Download (http://www.wershofen.de/downloads/dvdwizard.tar.gz)
klvemkdvd
Description: Front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html)
kmediafactory
Description: Authoring done by dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick
Link: Homepage (http://susku.pyhaselka.fi/damu/software/kmediafactory/)
lvemkdvd
Description: Linux video editor - part of lve package
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/)
pgcedit
Description: A DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure
Link: Homepage (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/)
polidori
Description: A DVD Authoring System for Gnome and Linux. It integrates several command line tools (dvdauthor, dvdrtools, ogle, etc) already available for Linux
Link: Homepage (http://polidori.sourceforge.net/)
qdvdauthor
Description: Gui frontend for dvd-author and dvd-slideshow
Link: Homepage (http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/)
tovid
Description: A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring.
Link: Homepage (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/)
varsha
Description: Java frontend to dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, mjpegtools etc...
Link: Homepage (http://varsha.sourceforge.net/)
Videotrans
Description: A set of scripts that convert a movie file in any format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all the necessary conversions automatically. An automatic DVD menu generator is also provided.
Link: Homepage (http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/)
VCD/SVCD
kavi2svcd
Description: GUI frontend to transcode, mplex, vcdimager, cdrdao for creating VCD and SVCD
Links: Link: Homepage (http://www.cornelinux.de/web/linux/kavi2svcd/index-english.html) - Download (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73070)
libvcd
Description: VCD/SVCD image mastering/ripping tool] [part of vcdimager
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdimager.org/)
tovid
Description: A suite of shell scripts to make VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring easier. Converts arbitrary video formats into (S)VCD/DVD-compliant mpeg, and can help with menu creation and disc authoring.
Link: Homepage (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/)
vcdeasy
Description: (commercial) VCD/SVCD authoring tool to play/watch videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and audio files (music, audio comments,...) directly on most home DVD players.
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdeasy.org/)
vcdimager
Description: VCD/SVCD authoring software]
Link: Homepage (http://www.vcdimager.org/)
DVD Tools
avidemux
Description: Intended (falls short) as linux virtualdub clone, that can also encode mpeg1/2
Link: Homepage (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)
bitterbpp
Description: bitterbpp is a GUI interface for MPlayer, transcoding DVD titles (video, audio, and subtitles) to Matroska file format
Link: Homepage (http://www.derekfrye.com/bitterbpp/)
ffmpeg
Description: fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder
Link: Homepage (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php)
gmencoder
Description: A gnome-2 front-end to mplayer/mencoder. Supports postprocesing, cropping, scaling, subtitles ripping, multiple passes for encoding
Link: Homepage (http://gmencoder.sourceforge.net/)
kmenc15
Description: A Qt/KDE MEncoder frontend designed to be a VirtualDub replacement for Linux. Useful for editing and encoding AVIs. It does not support opening of MPEGs. Allows cutting and merging at exact frames, applying any MPlayer/MEncoder filter, with preview.
Link: Homepage (http://kmenc15.sourceforge.net/)
Konverter
Description: A KDE MEncoder frontend for video conversions, scaling and cropping
Link: Homepage (http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/)
libdvdcss2
Description: A library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device and not bother about the decryption
Link: Homepage (http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html)
libdvdnav
Description: provides support to applications wishing to make use of advanced DVD features (menus)
Link: Homepage (http://dvd.sourceforge.net/)
libdvdread
Description: provides a foundation for reading DVD-Video images
Link: Homepage (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml)
libmpeg2
Description: a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder (for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 video streams)
Link: Homepage (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/)
lve
Description: LVE provides frame and GOP editing of MPEG1/2 elementary ("ES") and program streams ("PS"), including VOB format
Link: Homepage (http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/)
mjpegtools
Description: a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux
Link: Homepage (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)
mediacity
Description: a digital photo organizer, a tool for creating slideshows you can put on a Web page and a tool for authoring video-DVDs. Requires Java5
Link: Homepage (http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html)
Can run by clicking on this java application link: Download (http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp)
mkdvd
Description: a front-end for several programs which simplifies converting most kinds of movies to a DVD. While mkdvd is not a graphical front-end, it automates the entire task of creating a DVD into one simple command. - external programs used by mkdvd: mplayer, dvdauthor, mkisofs, cdrecord-prodvd, dvd+rw-tools, ffmpeg, toolame, pike
Links: Homepage (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html) - mkdvd forum: Link: Forum (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacker/viewforum.php?f=4) - Development version (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd-beta.tgz)
mkvtoolnix
Description: A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files. They do for Matroska what the OGMtools do for the OGM format.
Link: Homepage (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/)
mpgtx
Description: A command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox
Link: Homepage (http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/)
transcode
Description: A text-console video stream processing tool for decoding and encoding
Links: Homepage (http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode) - Mirror (http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/transcode) - win32 codecs (media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats) (http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html)
winki the ripper
Description: Program for video encoding. A graphical frontend for GNOME written in python to command line tools like mencoder, mplayer, mkvtoolnix, oggenc and lsdvd. - Limitation: it cannot use external audio nor subtitles files
Link: Homepage (http://www.winki-the-ripper.de/)
Video Editors
Cinelerra
Description: for capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video
Link: Homepage (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3/)
KDEnlive
Description: A Non-linear editor
Link: Homepage (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)
kino
Description: Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. Features integration with IEEE 1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in AVI format in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings
Link: Homepage (http://kino.schirmacher.de/)
MainActor + other packages
Description: capture, edit and export videos with a computer
Link: Homepage (http://www.mainconcept.com/index_flash.shtml)
Media Players
gxine
Description: a GTK+ based GUI for the libxine video player library
Link: Homepage (http://xinehq.de/)
kaffeine
Description: A xine-based Media Player for KDE3
Link: Homepage (http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/)
libxine
Description: frontend video and multimediaplayer, supports DVD, MPEG, AVI, DivX, VCD, Quicktime
Link: Homepage (http://xinehq.de/)
mplayer
Description: MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX
Link: Homepage (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html)
ogle
Description: The first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus
Link: Homepage (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml)
totem
Description: The official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment based on xine-lib or GStreamer. It features a
playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as keyboard navigation.
Link: Homepage (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/)
vlc
Description: VideoLAN Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
Link: Homepage (http://www.videolan.org/)