Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support [...]
If you have a huge collection of music and would like to build a media streaming server to manage your collection, then Jinzora is the right one for you.
Jinzora is a Web based media streaming and management system. It is supported in various platforms and it allows you to access your music collection from any [...]
AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and is more than a simple ISO mount software.
Features include,
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PyTube is a GUI tool to download videos online from Video-sharing websites like Youtube, Google videos. Not only can it download files, PyTube can search for videos and help you to convert the videos to your format of choice. Also, can manipulate videos like Apply Audio into Video, Merge videos, resize videos, create ringtones to [...]
Let’s set up our wireless firmware (or drivers) our video drivers and our webcam (web cam) drivers right now. It’s a whole lot easier than you may have heard, like when my Dad told me that landscaping was hard. Pffft. What a softie he was
We’re in the command line for this quick task. [...]
clive is an open source command line tool to extract videos and to bypass the need to use Adobe Flash in order to view user-generated content available on video-sharing websites. Clive supports Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, metacafe, Guba, Sevenload, Myvideo. Clive converts the downloaded Flash Video into a MP4 file avoiding the need of having a [...]
youtube-dl is a small free opensource command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl is a platform independent tool that works on UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. The latest version of Youtube-dl is 2008.08.09 and requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later. After all, it’s a simple and short program. All said, you [...]
Like any true gaming fan, I like to share my gaming moments of glory — that multifrag shot, and that super smooth drift around the S-bend. But most free and open source games don’t record gameplay videos. Even those that do don’t always make it easy to export videos out of the game. GLC is [...]
I guess the title tells you too much. The reality is that I was given some MP3 files and wanted to put them on a normal audio CD so the non-geeks here could listen to them. Thus, consider this a geek to non-geek conversion article.
First I looked at the obvious candidates in the Multimedia menu [...]
The Winamp equalizers presets are the best equalizer settings I have found. The following guide will get the default WinAmp presets working under Banshee 1.2.
1. Download the equalizer presets using the following command
wget http://www.mikesplanet.net/files/equalizers.xml.gz
2. Install equalizer presets in Banshee 1.2 (Please note, this will write over existing presets)
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Today PC’s have become a major source of entertainment … Whether its listening Music, watching Movies , playing Games or chatting in past time.. PC has does it all to keep you entertained for a long period of time.. PC has now turned to a jukebox now apart from what they are mainly meant for [...]
Non-linear video editing tools are great, but they’re not always the best tool for the job. This is where a powerful tool like ffmpeg becomes useful. This tutorial by Elliot Isaacson covers the basics of transcoding video, as well as more advanced tricks like creating animations, screen captures, and slow motion effects.
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Clive is Command-line and fullscreen console program that extracts videos from YouTube, Google Video and other video sites. It supports embedded video extraction, and can be used with an external encoder (e.g. ffmpeg) to re-encode the extracted videos to different video formats (e.g. avi, mpeg, flv).
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Ampache is a LAMP application that gives you a Web interface to your music collection, allowing you to search, rate, and play your music over the network. It even offers transcoding support to allow clients to play back lossless-encoded FLAC files from the server and stream them to clients as MP3 audio files.
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This article contains 4 applications for ripping DVDs on Linux: K9Copy, dvd::rip, acidrip and Thoggen.
K9Copy
K9Copy is a KDE application which allows ripping DVDs to many formats and it includes the possibility to rip to exact size (for example, rip a DVD into 2 files with 700 MB each). I wrote a full review here.
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