Projects tagged ‘media’ and ‘video’

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. ... [More] With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing. Prior to version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software. The source code for versions 4.x and 5.x are released under the BitTorrent Open Source License, a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License. Versions up to and including 3.4.2 were distributed under the MIT license. Version 5.3 was relicensed under the GPL. [Less]

Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs. As with all Xiph.org technology is it an open format free for anyone to use. libogg ... [More] is the reference library for demultiplexing and mutiplexing files in the ogg multimedia format. [Less]

GStreamer is a development framework for creating applications like media players, video editors, streaming media broadcasters and so on. It aims to support every format imaginable.

mplayerplug-in is a plugin for Mozilla to play videos embedded in a Web page. It uses Mplayer to process the video.

MythTV is a home-brew PVR project. It's been under heavy development for seven years, and is now usable and full featured.

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for portable music players. It runs on a wide range of different models.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE3. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.

ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters.

Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Like all our multimedia technology it can be used to distribute film and video online and on disc without the licensing ... [More] and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with other formats. Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution and beyond, and is considered particularly competitive at low bitrates. [Less]