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BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.
mplayerplug-in is a plugin for Mozilla to play videos embedded in a Web page. It uses Mplayer to process the video.
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, cross-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
XBMC is a multimedia player/jukebox for the Xbox from Microsoft. It can be used to play or view most common video, audio, and picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, and GIF directly from a CD or DVD in the Xbox DVD-ROM drive
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or from the Xbox hard drive. XBMC can also stream files over a local network or from the Internet. Playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast, and many audio visualizations are also included. [Less]
XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. XBMC is open source (GPL) software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, and the Xbox game-console. XBMC can play a very complete
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spectrum of of multimedia formats, and featuring playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, together with a multitude of third-party plugins. [Less]
Streamripper records MP3, Ogg, AAC, and NSV audio and video files from Shoutcast and Icecast compatible streams. The streams can be recorded as a whole or in individual tracks. Streamripper also features a relay stream, which lets you listen or watch live from multiple clients while recording.
Open source software for the Neuros OSD media recorder device : http://www.neurosaudio.com/osd/osd.asp
This includes a customized bootloader and linux kernel, drivers, and the actual application for the user interface.
The usability-focused simple video player for KDE.
Uses Phonon on the backend.
A collection of python scripts for XBMC. This is the home to such scripts as Apple Movie Trailers, Youtube, Xinbox, xStocks, Accuweather and Tetris just to name a few.
If you have made a script that you would like to commit to this svn contact one
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of the Project Admins.
The offical channel for this project is #xbmc-scripting on Freenode network. Its for code support only, not support how to get a script to work. [Less]
Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using object-oriented programming paradigm.
It uses gstreamer multimedia framework for
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multimedia playback. User Interface is implemented with Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces.
Entertainer also uses other great projects like SQLite and iNotify for caching media libraries. [Less]
LeechCraft is an extensible crossplatform multiprotocol opensource download manager. Currently it supports BitTorrent, HTTP, RSS/Atom feeds, allows you to chat in IRC a bit and a lot more.
The MPEG4IP package provides a set of tools to encode, stream, and playback audio and video. It uses the MPEG-4 standards for audio and video, and the IETF standards for streaming. The included player can either playback from local MP4 file or stream from a remote server via RTP/RTSP.
DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs.
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most
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noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX. [Less]
The open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.
MorphinMorphin is a simple video-player aiming to be similar to KDE's Dragonplayer (former Codeine). It's based on Python, Gtk+ and Gstreamer. The main focus is on usability, ergonomics and simplicity. However, it has all features that you need to
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watch your videos.
FeaturesSimple and clean interface Fast startup Resume where you left off when replaying the video Nice interface for selecting the last played video files Video display settings (brightness, contrast, hue) Video aspect settings RequirementsPython 2.5 PyGTK 2.10 GStreamer 0.10 Kiwi (Homepage) ConfigObj (Homepage) Current VersionCurrent version is 0.0.5 Alpha4.
This release should be the last before the first beta.
I hope i can release the first beta version in the next two or three weeks.
InstallationFor a quick installation guide see this site.
TODO features and IdeasNice Cairo based overlay control for fullscreen mode Nice Clutter powered 'Open Media...' interface?? [Less]