XOSD displays text on your screen; sounds simple, right? The difference is
that it is unmanaged and shaped, so it appears transparent. This gives the
effect of an on-screen-display, just like on your TV/VCR, etc.
Audiopreview is a command-line tool that can play previews of your
audio files as well as video files, and even internet media streams.
It will play your whole media library without any problem and can
also be used as a regular media player.
Baka MPlayer is a free and open source, cross-platform, libmpv based
multimedia player. Its simple design reflects the idea for an
uncluttered, simple, and enjoyable environment for watching tv shows.
Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the
most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing,
translation and synchronization.
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libmovtar
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has been implemented according to the quicktime4linux API
It supports reading and writing (read/write mode has been prepared,
but is not implemented yet) of MJPEG video in YUV 4:2:2 JPEG with
mono/stereo, 8/16-bit, any sample rate sound.
It supports indexing files (always done when writing a new file,
old (or manually created) movtar files without index are indexed
internally during the opening process).
You can freely jump forwards and backwards between the frames in
an opened file.
Print information about the contents and structure of a DVD.
Requantize MPEG-2 streams without recompressing. M2VRequantiser
accepts raw MPEG2 video data (not VOB) from standard input and
writes the recompressed frames to standard output.
Usage is :
M2VRequantiser recompression_factor inputM2Vsize <input.m2v >output.m2v
Makes high quality X/K/S/VCD movies from any format mplayer can play
From README:
GOAL
Make a 2 hour vcd with good quality.
USAGE
mkxvcd.sh yourmovie.whateverextensionmplayercanplay
mkxvcd.sh /dev/dvd (or whatever device your dvd drive is using)
Options on the commandline are:
-d for debugging.
-m to force mplayer if you don't have transcode installed.
-t to force transcode (you can also edit the script in the :user
settings" section)
MMPython is a Media Meta Data retrieval framework. It retrieves
metadata from mp3, ogg, avi, jpg, tiff and other file formats.
Among others it thereby parses ID3v2, ID3v1, EXIF, IPTC and
Vorbis data into an object oriented struture.
A set of Perl bindings for gstreamer