SMPEG is a free MPEG1 video player library with sound support. Video playback
is based on the ubiquitous Berkeley MPEG player, mpeg_play v2.2. Audio is
played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of Splay v0.8.2.
SMPEG supports MPEG audio (MP3), MPEG-1 video, and MPEG system streams.
plaympeg is simple video players provided to test the library. The C library
interface is 'documented' in smpeg.h, and the C++ library interface is spread
out over the MPEG*.h files.
This is a work in progress. Only 16 or 32 bit color depth is supported.
The player will dynamically convert to other color depths, but playback
will be much faster if your display is already set to 16 bit color depth.
Skins for SMPlayer (Skinnable GUI)
LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool.
LiVES lets you start editing and making video right away, without having
to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. LiVES will let you
start creating your own tools, utilities and effects via the built in
RFX builder.
LiVES is aimed at the digital video artist who wants to create their own
content, the video editor who wants to produce professional looking
video, and the VJ who wants to captivate with spectacular images.
The package contains a library to use the Video Spigot for Windows
video aquistion board.
The "mencoder" component of the MPlayer project is a tool which
allows creation of video streams. It supports almost the same set
of input sources as the player component and supports encoding from
these sources through various codecs, including the popular ffmpeg,
XviD and x264 families. "Transcoding" DVDs into avi files is also
possible.
This is the port of skins for MPlayer's Graphical User Interface
(GUI).
[ excerpt (with adaptations) from developer's website with modifications ]
MKVtoolnix will evolve into a set of tools to create, alter and
inspect Matroska files under Linux and other Unices, just what the
OGMtools do for the OGM format.
MPlayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player.
A fork of the original MPlayer project, it contains significant further
development and supports a number of features not available
in other Unix players.
Quark is an audio player, for geeks, by geeks. It runs in the background
with access provided via a FIFO in the filesystem. It uses Xine-lib
for playing music, and can therefore play any file format supported
by Xine.
Quark comes with a couple front-ends to make it more useful.
- charm-quark - a CLI interface
- strange-quark - a GTK System Tray interface