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It is a free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video
streams. The main goals in libmpeg2 development are:
Conformance - libmpeg2 is able to decode all mpeg streams that
conform to certain restrictions: "constrained parameters" for
mpeg-1, and "main profile" for mpeg-2. In practice, this is what
most people are using. For streams that follow these restrictions,
we believe libmpeg2 is 100% conformant to the mpeg standards - and
we have a pretty extensive test suite to check this.
Speed - for most current systems, the display will actually take
more time than the mpeg-2 decoding. For systems that have hardware
color conversion and scaling (as we can use with the xv extension
in Xfree 4), you should be able to watch DVD streams on a Celeron
400. On a PIII/666 with null display you should get about 110 frames
per second.
Portability - most of the code is written in C, and when we use
platform-specific optimizations we always have a generic C routine
to fall back on.
The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the
encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those
that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface.
Libdv was developed according to the official standards for DV
video: IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M.
Please note that this software is only concerned with the DV video
compression format, which is different from capturing the data from
a camcorder.
LAME plugin for libquicktime
libsmacker is a cross-platform C library which can be used for decoding Smacker
Video files produced by RAD Game Tools. Smacker Video was the king of video
middleware in the 1990s, and its 256-color compressed video format was used in
over 2600 software titles.
A multimedia server for KiSS/Linksys media players that enables the player to
browse through and play stored files in a wide range of video, audio and image
formats.
kissdx is a PC-Link clone based for the most part on kissd (which it now
replaces), with added features for media playback, management, flexibility and
more.
libxspf is a parser library for the XML Shareable Playlist Format
(XSPF). XSPF is an open format for playlists. The XSPF specification has
been written by Xiph.
lavtools: Linux Audio and Video TOOLS for Motion JPEG and MPEG
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Programs for MJPEG recording and playback and simple cut-and-paste
editting and MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux (Now
FreeBSD).
N.b. Only the "lav" programs have been written whooly from scratch.
The rest are from diverse open source originals, modified to work
with the lav tools edit lists and AVI and quicktime files. Some
(especially the MPEG tools) have had also more major perfomance and
functionality enhancements.
mpgtx was designed with the good old Unix philosophy in mind : do few but
do it well and provide end user an austary yet powerfull command line
interface.
- mpgtx can currently split and join MPEG 1 video files and most MPEG
audio files.
- mpgtx can fetch detailed informations from MPEG 1 and MPEG 2.
- mpgtx can demultiplex MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 files (System layer, Program
layer and Transport Layer).
- mpgtx can add, remove and edit ID3 tags from mp3 files and rename mp3
files according to their ID3 tags.
- DivX ;) is not yet supported, neither is MPEG 4
- splitting and joining of MPEG 2 video files is experimental. (read "will
work only in your wildest dreams")
This is a port of motion, this version works with network cameras and with any
capture devices that supports bktr(4) with composite and svideo inputs. Tuner
support is not yet implemented. Latest port versions supports webcams supported
by pwcbsd.
mp3cd is a perl script that normalizes and burns MP3,
OGG, and WAV files to audio CDs.