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- kimbellina, on 07/17/2008, -2/+28I'll digg any list with 42 items, Linuxy things are just a bonus.
- TheDeepFriar, on 07/17/2008, -2/+1542?? I guess this software is the answer to life, the universe, and everything!
- silfiriel, on 07/17/2008, -3/+13***** you and your blog!
- canthraxp, on 07/17/2008, -0/+8Site is running slow, here's a backup:
Players
Gnash Flash movie player
Kaffeine Full featured media player for KDE
KMPlayer Basic audio/video viewer application for KDE
Miro A platform for Internet television and video
MPlayer Extremely powerful movie player
Ogle DVD player that supports DVD menus
SMPlayer Qt based MPlayer front-end
Totem Official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment
VLC Portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
xine Powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback
Personal Video Recorders
Elisa Media Center Cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple to use
Freevo Manage your entire digital media collection
LinuxMCE Media PC / HTPC (Home Theater PC) similar to Windows XP Media Center
MythTV Provides a Home Theatre convergence box
Media Collection Managers
GCStar Manages personal collections
Griffith Movie collection manager application
Tellico KDE application for organizing your collections
Editors
Avidemux Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks
Celtx Screenwriting software for writing and formatting a screenplay
Cinelerra 3 main functions: capturing, compositing, and editing audio/video
Kdenlive Non-linear video editor for KDE
Kino Non-linear DV editor
LiVES Video Editing System designed to be simple to use, yet powerful
Open Movie Editor Non-linear video editor designed for basic movie making capabilities
Video Samplers
Veejay Visual instrument and realtime video sampler
Video Streaming
MPEG4IP End-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia
FreeJ Digital instrument for video livesets with realtime rendering of multilayered video
Animation
Blender 3D content creation suite
Stopmotion Create stop motion animations
Webcam
Cheese
Use your webcam to take photos and videos
HasciiCam Serves live ascii video over the net
Encoding and Conversion
FFmpeg Real time audio/video encoder/converter, streaming server
HandBrake Multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter
MEncoder Simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
thin liquid film Convert videos to the Ipod format
transcode Console based tools for transcoding video and audio files
DVD Authoring & Ripping
DeVeDe Create video DVDs, suitables for home players, from any number of video files
DVDStyler Cross-platform DVD authoring application
Q DVD-Author GUI frontend for dvdauthor and related tools
Thoggen DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper'), based on GStreamer and Gtk+
Tools
dvgrab Receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an IEEE1394
recordMyDesktop Captures audio-video data of a desktop session
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http://209.85.215.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ... - lynx44, on 07/17/2008, -1/+742 seems like a bit much. When you're looking for "best of" you'd think they can at least narrow it down to 1 or 2 per category. Seems more like a list of all of the major video software for Linux.
- sirhomer, on 07/17/2008, -1/+7Cinelerra is actually made by a major professional movie studio who strangely wishes to remain anonymous.
- danwallace, on 07/17/2008, -2/+7I can't believe there's actually a blog about hating Linux. How can anyone hate Linux? Well, aside from the fact that the Linux community is full of spiteful, angry nerds who consistently say bewilderingly stupid things like Winblows and Microsuck. But the concept itself is nothing to get your panties in a twist about. I permanently switched over to Ubuntu Hardy a couple months ago and I have had no problems. Even TF2 works fine under Cedega.
Go free stuff! - mossblaser, on 07/17/2008, -0/+5Well when you see the interface, performance and functionality you'll see why...
Cinelarra is a disappointing app (lots of potential but it seems to vuagely try to be after effects (a challenge I think won't be met in prettey much any project - too specialized to attract enough developers to sustain something that big) and falls short in the same way ms paint does at being GIMP). - HonestAbe, on 07/17/2008, -4/+8Are they used by any professionals?
- chroko, on 07/17/2008, -0/+4I'll take VLC, Celtx, Blender and Handbrake from that list (they are all cross-platform anyway) - but the rest should be left alone if you want to be productive.
I tried a few Linux video editing packages a few months back. Including AVIDeMux, Kino - and a few others. On the rare occasion that a piece of software didn't crash - it simply didn't have anything like the required functionality.
I wish they were better, but the entire Linux video editing universe can be beaten with a consumer-level copy of iMovie 6 (for the editing) and Quicktime Pro (for the encoding) on a low-end Mac. Let alone a complete package like Sony Vegas (Windows), Final Cut Express or Final Cut Studio (on a high-end Mac). - Acglaphotis, on 07/17/2008, -1/+4Kdenlive > *.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3It does make the list a little pointless.
- flawedprefect, on 07/18/2008, -0/+3I've used KDEnlive before, and it was buggy, but I am keeping an eye on its development. I am a professional Video Editor and 3D motion graphics designer. I use Blender for most of my 3D. I only use Maya when I am required to use a plugin for specific technology. Even then, I do most of my modelling in Blender and export an FBX file so that Maya can import it faithfully.
I shall be checking out the other editing software, however, because I think it really will change things in years to come. - aroedl, on 07/18/2008, -0/+2This is the list of free (as in beer and speech) linux video software. There is also a ton of commercial linux video software: http://www.linuxmovies.org/software.html . Yes, the site is crappy and outdated, but you get the idea.
- robdiggity, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3I blog your love!!!
- pickture, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3The only problem is that it takes 42 programs to do it.
- futur4m4, on 07/17/2008, -2/+4Not a bad list. I'll have to give several of those a try...
- c00l2sv, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3For the last 6 guys that left silly comments:
"This is the Unix philosophy:
Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
Write programs to work together.
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
This is usually severely abridged to "Do one thing, do it well."
From wikipedia, where you should really spend much more time. When you'll finish there, come back to digg!
Great list, I would add several apps for desktop recording like recordmydesktop and so on... - inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Wow. I just googled it and damn, that looks like a fine piece of software!
I'm going to check that one out - I don't really like using Kino with a custom FFMPEG because of the resolution restrictions and the fact that it feels limiting at times.
In any case thanks for mentioning this. - neko, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1"The only thing linux is not fragmented on is the kernel."
I WONDER WHY. WOW, SOMEONE SHOULD REALLY CALL UP THE CEO OF LINUX AND TELL THEM TO FIRE THE EMPLOYEES WASTING THEIR TIME ON MAKING DIFFERENT AUDIO APIS. - pedepy, on 07/17/2008, -2/+3yea ive been sayin that forever but you'll find alot of stallman-yes-men giving out the opinion that 'it's all about choice and freedom'
im sorry but id rather have 1 or 2 solid distro/video editor/multimedia platform/desktop environment/browser engine than 18 that all work at 35% efficiency..
that said, having never used much Apple s/w in the past, and recently purchased an iPhone, the firmware 2.0 on that thing is about as stable as kde 4.1 beta .. and that says alot - bratterscain, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Mirror: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:http://www.li ...
- Commodore13, on 07/18/2008, -1/+2Some of these are just video playback tools, and not video editing tools. I.E. VLC and Totem.
- zombies187, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1Because 43 choices would have been WAY too many!
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -2/+3That's spelled Totem
And sorry to those who oppose but i kinda agree that its crappy at least in comparison to players like VLC, SMplayer, etc etc. - dpmcalli, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1This is absolutely correct as I also found out when trying to migrate to Linux. None of the Linux video editing solutions are really viable replacements for the popular consumer level editors available for windows..
- Ninjao, on 07/17/2008, -1/+2Thankfully VLC is multi-platform..:) I use it to stream my media from a 100mbit(linux) server to my media center pc(windows), so theres no need to actually "download" them. Although technically it is downloading it is just much quicker and easier to setup a stream. Plus it leaves me more space on the HDD for music :)
- pyrates, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1I think linux needs to concentrate on getting one stable api for video and one for audio. There is 3 api's for audio currently and none of them work with every sound card on the market. Not to mention not every app is compatible with all 3 of them. Choice is good, but choice can be confusing when it doesn't even match the commercial alternatives. The only thing linux is not fragmented on is the kernel.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -3/+2Different categories...
Come on, can't you try to read the article? - justananomaly, on 07/17/2008, -2/+1Thank you linuxlinks.com
- oregonbob2000, on 07/18/2008, -1/+0OK, is this supposed to be a humor post? "42 best"?
- silfiriel, on 07/17/2008, -6/+4how can a list of 42 be the best??? a list of the best software consists of only 3 to 5
- HonestAbe, on 07/17/2008, -3/+2Besides render farms, that is.
- qbthemc, on 07/17/2008, -3/+1Dugg down since you are a linux fanboy
- MuffinFlavored, on 07/17/2008, -3/+1There should be just one to rule them all!
- DeathGod321, on 07/17/2008, -3/+1It's the only 42 Free Linux Video Softwares.
- peestandingup, on 07/17/2008, -6/+3Hmm, only 42 eh?? Man, this along with all the distros to choose from, its a no brainer to switch, right??
Here's a bit of advice for the Linux community. Consolidate! - qbthemc, on 07/17/2008, -6/+2What is Linux?
- pedepy, on 07/17/2008, -6/+2and of those editors that are actually usable: 0
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -7/+2I love your blog!!!
- HoratioHellpop, on 07/17/2008, -5/+0Who said it's my blog? Typical dumbass freetard.
- prunch, on 07/17/2008, -7/+1Watchmen trailer is up http://digg.com/movies/Watchman_trailer_is_up
- UnFriendlyFire, on 07/17/2008, -10/+2I have Totum. It won't play anything because the codecs are not installed and not free.
- HoratioHellpop, on 07/17/2008, -23/+3And yet they all still suck. Freetards will never learn: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/
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