complete list of apps to get you started

[DaveQB]

So many times i see posts in Linux video forums simply asking
"what app can i use ??"

I too was one of these people not that long ago.
Well it seems recently i have developed a decent list of apps i have come across but by no means exhaustive.

So i figured why not have a thread with all that i know and added to by others and what they have seen out there. Will definately help beginners and quite possible people who have been searching high and low for that 'exact' app they are after.

So without further adieu....


GUI



Acidrip

ripping and encoding DVD tool using mplayer and mencoder
AcidRip is a Gtk::Perl application for ripping and encoding DVD's. It
neatly wraps MPlayer and MEncoder, which I think is pretty handy, seeing as
MPlayer is by far the best bit of video playing kit around for Linux. As
well as creating a simple Graphical Interface for those scared of getting
down and dirty with MEncoders command line interface, It also automates the
process in a number of ways:


Avidemux

A great starting point for someone coming from Windows. A VirtualDub clone it can also encode to mpeg1/2. A little slower in seeking lossless video, but maybe that was a hard drive issue of mine.


DVD Slide Show

tools to create dvd slideshow with menus
dvd-slideshow
This is the main script. It generates a DVD-compatible MPEG2 video file
with audio from a text file input listing of pictures and effects.

dvd-menu
Creates a simple DVD menu with buttons that link to MPEG2 files generated
with dvd-slideshow or ones that you have created yourself.

gallery2slideshow
Instead of a GUI to create slideshows, I already have almost everything set
up from my web page that uses the Gallery program. I figured it wouldn't be
that hard to just get a listing of all the images in a given album
(sub-albums not supported!) and to generate an appropriate input file to
dvd-slideshow.

jigl2slideshow
Does the same thing as gallery2slideshow, but works on a jigl gallery


Kino

(Site also homes dvgrab: DV capturing app)
Kino is mostly thought of as a DV captuing and editing app but it can do more. I havent devled deep into this app as i have issues with my firewire and camcorder under Linux. I probably should explore its effects/editing ability.

Cinelerra

This looks like it has great potential but i have yet to really get into this one either. If anyone has a guide/tutorial for this please post.

Kmenc15

Essentially a script generator for MEncoder. Has a wide variety of options and generates a script for copying so you can batch up encodes. Also allows visual editing of start (-ss) and end positions (-endpos)
Sadly files i have tried to open with it have errored for some reason, although they play in mplayer. Its early days and has alot of potential i think.

gmencoder

This the main GUI for MEncoder, but i find a little limiting to what MEncoder can really do. Its geared mainly for DVD backup.

KDenlive

A nice little Non-linear editor i havent got into yet.

LiVES

Another Non-linear editor i havent really got into besides trying to load a lavc video file and having it crash KDE on me :\
Only one i have found to do a fade out/in effect.

LVE

Yet another non-linear editor that ....... i haven't looked into much.

Konverter

Similiar to Kmenc15 but it hasn't got the visual editor. Seems to be less buggy though.

KLVEmkdvd

A very tidy looking DVD compiler. Doesn't seem to have any menu options.

mpgtx

No idea. Found this on my travels last week and then noticed it was installed b another board members app : mediacity.

Drip

A DVD ripper. Never used it.

mediacity

Very new product still being tested in these very forums. Written in Java. Developed by Graham Trott (a.k.a. Jerry Attrix)

QDVDauthor

A GUI frontend for DVDauthor.

Varsha

Another DVD authoring program written in Java this time.

DVD::rip

A nice all in one DVD ripper. Does everything from the ripping to the burning. Writtne in Perl. Uses Transcode as a backend.





CLI



MEncoder

The best encoder i have found, often the backend for many of the GUI's listed.

lxdvdrip

A simplified all-in-one DVD ripper.

ffmpeg

We owe alot to this project like lavcodec.

transcode

A bit slow but does thing MEncoder can't.

encode2mpeg

Uses MPlayer and MEncoder as a backend as well as mjpegtools to convert anything into a DVD/SVCD or VCD.


Mjpegtools

Good for operations on mpeg files like multiplexing etc. Used as a backend for other tools like tovid.


tovid

Same as encode2mpeg except a little more in its infancy. Has better installer and documentation though.

DVDauthor

A DVDauthoring suite. For making menu's and compiling DVD compliant files.





Audio


Audacity

Very handy visual audio editor in the same fashion as GoldWave for Windows.

A fast, cross-platform audio editor
Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and
Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of
digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum
analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited
undo/redo.

Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and AU.


Glame

versatile audio processor
GLAME provides a powerful and extensible framework for processing
audio files similar to what GIMP offers in the graphics area. GLAME so
far features a graphical frontend to set up filter networks and perform
basic audio editing tasks. A flexible Scheme-based command line editor
offers low-level access for scripting purposes.


sox

A universal sound sample translator
SOX (SOund eXchange) is a generic utility for translating
sound files from one format to another, possibly performing
a sound effect at the same time. Sox is able to handle formats
like .ogg (vorbis), mp3, wav, aiff, voc, snd, au, gsm and several
more.





misc.

Xvicap

Handy video screen capturing with a nice tutorial (with of course video files showing how to use it;) )

MKVmerge GUI

Part of the MKVtoolnix, a good way to merge your mpeg4 videos with there Ogg Vorbis audio.
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Gnome Video Apps
Gnome Audio Apps

[DaveQB]

I am not sure to add it to mine or just leave it as a reply and let additional replies add-on with more recommendations.

hmmmm
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[Garibaldi]

This isn't an app recommendation but I would like to recommend the site www.linuxquestions.org, a great Linux forum, which can be a great companion to the video-help forum in troubleshooting your problems installing or using these apps.

[lordsmurf]

This should probably be a sticky.
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[DaveQB]

updated first post to reflect new applications suggested

[BlooderButcher]

Hi

I would like to recommend the following application

Well, I'm using it now for video recording under linux...

Zapping

http://zapping.sourceforge.net/

Has a variate range of video codecs and audio codecs and it have a very friendly interface (Gnome/GTK based)

Requires the Gnome 2.6.1 or later to work and a 2.6 kernel because the application supports Video 4 Linux 2

Support Video 4 Linux (first version) too (kernels <= 2.4) but is recommended the V4L2 (of course)

Thanx and bye, bye!!!

[adcvideo]

Another good recommendation is to utilize each Distro's download and install procedure.

Many Linux versions have a tool (YAST, RPMdrake, etc) for downloading and installing new software all ready to go in a package optimized for that particular OS.

I recall when I installed Linux almost none of the Video Apps directly downloaded from their Web page would play nice, but the built-in download/update/install setup to locate the same app nearly always worked great. I believe the expectation that a standard binary applicable to every distro exists is one reason for the new Linux user to give up on a great OS. It is very possible to download binaries and install directly *but* this doesn't always work -- dealing with interlocking dependencies isn't the best introduction to Linux.

And not all Linux distros require a fee to access the download database of pre-complied apps.

Cheers
adcvideo

[BlooderButcher]

Well, as I use the professional Slackware Linux Distribution 10.1 I usually don't care if the downloaded program will work or not because...

...I usually get the source code preferable in gzipped or bzipped 'tarball'

So, I untar/ungzip or unbzip it to /usr/src or /usr/local/src

And after read the README's, INSTALL's or the requirements for compile the program...

I solve the dependencies (libraries or needed applications) and if an library/application I don't have it...

...I get it again on source code, I compile it, and if the application has a 'configure' script

# ./configure
# make
# make installl

And sometimes I usually fix the code (only when the app become unstable)

And two personal notes:

- I hate RPM's (RedHat Package Management) and the Debian packages

- Is very more interesting you get a source code and 'do it yourself' as the concept of Linux and other free UNI*CES (Unix) like Free/Net/OpenBSD

Bye!!!

[Garibaldi]

[oldcpu]

The FAQ has some great links. I took these links, and added some more, but intead of categorizing them as Command Line vs GUI, I tried to organize them a bit more functionally. However this is not easy, as many of these packages cross all boundaries. I suspect in my "haste" to finish this list, I miscategorized many.

DVD RIPPING PROGRAMS

chaplin [chaplin parses a DVD disc or image and extracts the exact duration for each chapter of a given title. Then the total list of chapters is split into a user-selectable number of subsets. Each subset should have approximately the same duration. This is a very useful approach for multi-cd rips (backups). You no longer simply split the movie in the middle of the frame count but you choose two sets of chapters for both parts which both have (almost) the same length. Then the disc-break is not at a rather random point (concering the story telling of the movie) but at the end of a dvd-chapter. The chapter timings and the split sets are also very useful for chapter navigation (even on a single disc). The normal output mode of chaplin thus prints the chapter's relative beginning time and the duration in a wide number of formats, ranging from seconds, frame counts to timestamps].
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/chaplin.html

cpvdvd [a tool to transfer a DVD title to your harddisk on Linux. This tool copies all required files for a movie title from a DVD on your harddisk for further processing with libdvdreads image mode (e.g. transcode). It automatically selects the title with longest duration (but you can also pick a specific one). The tool determines the correct title set (VTS-VOB files) for the selected title, clones the navigation information (IFO files) and extracts (decodes) the data into new video object streams.]
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/cpdvd.html

cpvts [can raw copy title sets from a DVD to your harddisc. This tool can copy a single or all title sets from a DVD to a directory].
http://www.lallafa.de/bp/cpvts.html

dvdbackup [rips DVD to harddisk]
http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/download.shtml
http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/

DVDRipOMatic [translate movie from DVD to XviD format]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVDRipOMatic

gbDVDenc [rip and encode DVD into mpeg files]
http://sakya.altervista.org/gbdvdenc/index.html

k9copy [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]
http://k9copy.free.fr/

kdvdbackup [backing up movie DVD's to hard disk. It uses the libdvdread and libdvdnav library]
http://agmanager.sourceforge.net/

ldvd [DVD backup tool with GUI]
http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/

lxdvdrip [command line rip, author, preview, burn]
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=lxdvdrip

ogmrip [an application/libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI or OGM files. Relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc and lame].
http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/

streamdvd [fastbackup to DVD on fly – can handle DVD9 to DVD5]
http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html

subtitleripper [tools to extract DVD-subtitles]
http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/ - home page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitleripper - download

thoggen [a DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+]
http://thoggen.net/

VanRed (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.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/charemma

Video-DVDRip [also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode]
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

vobcopy [copies vob files to hard disk]
http://vobcopy.org/projects/c/c.shtml


DVD Shrinking Programs

dvdshrink [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]
http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133818

klvemkdvd [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]
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html

ldvd [DVD backup tool with GUI]
http://ldvd9to5.gff-clan.net/

tovid [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].
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid

vamps-tools [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].
http://vamps-tools.sourceforge.net/
[There are no downloads available (yet) for this program, as the project hasn't released any files]

Video-DVDRip [also called dvd::rip - GUI to rip and transcode]
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/


DVD Authoring Programs

DeVeDe [the DeVeDe project creates video DVDs, suitables for home players].
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html

dvdauthor [generates a DVD movie from a valid mpeg2 stream that should play when you put it in a DVD player]
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ - home
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdauthor

DVDAuthorWizard-0.92 [create video DVD with multiple titles & menu]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVDAuthor

DVD Home Video Project [a tool that provides a simple, quick way to transform video on a DV camcorder into a DVD].
http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~ssantner/index.html

DV Slideshow [creates slideshows from photos, adds music – stores in Sony DV format]
[Not yet released]
http://pingwing.xs4all.nl/view.php/page/DVSlideshow

dvdslideshow [create standard DVD video from a batch of pictures]
http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/ and

dvdstyler [frontend for dvdauthor and dvd-slideshow – single movie/single menu]
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/docs-linux.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdstyler/

dvdwizard [wrapper-script automate creation of DVD chapters/menu's. Needs dvdauthor,
[No home URL but there is a download for the script]:
http://www.wershofen.de/downloads/dvdwizard.tar.gz

klvemkdvd [front end for lvemkdvd - build DVD file systems from mpeg files]
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/klvemkdvd.html

kmediafactory [authoring done by dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick]
http://susku.pyhaselka.fi/damu/software/kmediafactory/
kmediafactory-0.40-1.lee.matheson.i686 [I had to compile myself]

lvemkdvd [linux video editor - part of lve package]
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/

lxdvdrip [command line rip, author, preview, burn]
http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=lxdvdrip – home
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lxdvdrip – download

ManDVD [This is a program to create DVD Vidéo.]
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38347
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/ManDVD-12812.shtml
ManDVD forum: http://csgib36.ifrance.com/phpBB2/index.php

pgcedit [a DVD IFO and Menu editor designed to allow the modification of the navigation commands and parameters of an already authored DVD structure]
http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/

qdvdauthor [gui frontend for dvd-author and dvd-slideshow]
http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

tovid [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].
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid

varsha [java frontend to dvdauthor, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, mjpegtools etc...]
http://varsha.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/varsha

Videotrans [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.]
http://videotrans.sourceforge.net/
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Videotrans-6982.shtml


VCD/SVCD

kavi2svcd [GUI frontend to transcode, mplex, vcdimager, cdrdao for creating VCD and SVCD]
http://www.cornelinux.de/web/linux/kavi2svcd/index-english.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73070 - download

libvcd [VCD/SVCD image mastering/ripping tool]
[part of vcdimager]
http://www.vcdimager.org/

tovid [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].
http://tovid.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tovid

vcdimager [VCD/SVCD authoring software]
http://www.vcdimager.org/


DVD Tools

bitterbpp [bitterbpp is a GUI interface for MPlayer, transcoding DVD titles (video, audio, and subtitles) to Matroska file format]
http://sunfryes.com/bitterbpp/about.html

ffmpeg [fast MPEG1/MPEG4/H263/RV and AC3/MPEG audio encoder]
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php

gmencoder [Last update June-2003. A gnome-2 front-end to mplayer/mencoder. Suuports postprocesing, cropping, scaling, subtitles ripping, multiple passes for encoding]
http://gmencoder.sourceforge.net/

kmenc15 [Last update April-2005. 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.]
http://kmenc15.sourceforge.net/

KmPg2 [an MPEG2 encoding wizard that allows the user to create DVD compatible MPEG2 streams].
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/KmPg2-MPEG2-Encoder-5324.shtml

Konverter [Last update 24-June-2005 (v.0.93). A KDE MEncoder frontend for video conversions, scaling and cropping]
http://www.kraus.tk/projects/konverter/

libdvdcss2 [a library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device and not bother about the decryption]
http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html

libdvdnav [provides support to applications wishing to make use of advanced DVD features (menus)]
http://dvd.sourceforge.net/

libdvdread [provides a foundation for reading DVD-Video images]
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml

libmpeg2 [a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder (for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 video streams)]
http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/

lve [LVE provides frame and GOP editing of MPEG1/2 elementary ("ES") and program streams ("PS"), including VOB format]
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/

mediacity [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]
http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html
Can run by clicking on this java application link below:
http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp

mjpegtools [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]
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg

mkdvd [last update June-2004 (v.2.13) but there is active support on forum - 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 progrms used by mkdvd: mplayer, dvdauthor, mkisofs, cdrecord-prodvd, dvd+rw-tools, ffmpeg, toolame, pike]
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd.html
mkdvd forum: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacker/viewforum.php?f=4
development version: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/hacks/mkdvd-beta.tgz

mkvtoolnix [last update 21-Aug-2005 (v.1.5.5) - a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files. They do for Matroska what the OGMtools do for the OGM format].
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2182692/com/mkvtoolni ... 6.rpm.html

mpgtx [Last update January-2005 - a command line MPEG audio/video/system file toolbox]
http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgtx/

transcode [a text-console video stream processing tool for decoding and encoding]
http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode
http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/transcode and

win32 codecs [media player windows codec dlls for several multimedia formats]
http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

winki the ripper [last update 19-July-2005 (v.0.3.11) - 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]
http://www.winki-the-ripper.de/

Video Editors

avidemux [intended as linux virtualdub clone, that can also encode mpeg1/2]
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Cinelerra [for capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video]
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3/

KDEnlive [Last update March-2004. A Non-linear editor]
http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/

kino [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]
http://kino.schirmacher.de/

MainActor + other packages [capture, edit and export videos with a computer]
http://www.mainconcept.com/index_flash.shtml

Media Players

gxine [a GTK+ based GUI for the libxine video player library]
http://xinehq.de/

kaffeine [A xine-based Media Player for KDE3]
http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/

libxine [frontend video and multimediaplayer, supports DVD, MPEG, AVI, DivX, VCD, Quicktime]
http://xinehq.de/

mplayer [MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX]
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

ogle [The first opensource DVD player to support DVD menus]
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/index.shtml

totem [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].
http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/

vlc [VideoLAN Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats]
http://www.videolan.org/ and

Edits:
Edit1 (14-Sep-05): - changed location of avidemux in the list
Edit2 (6-Oct-05): - changed packages order to alphabetical (within categories)
Edit3 (12-Nov-05) - added k9copy, tovid, Videotrans, and gbDVDenc
Edit4 (12-Nov-05) - added VanRed
Edit5 (25-May-06) - added KmPg2, DeVeDe, DVD Home Video Project
Edit6 (28-May-06) - added chaplin, cpdvd, cpvts
Edit7 (17-Jun-06) - added ManDVD
Edit8 (29-Jul-06) - added ManDVD forum URL

[Garibaldi]

Great! looks like a good list of apps, I'm going to try some of them with synaptic the next time I boot up my Kunbuntu install.
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