A sizeable number of full featured, mature and free video applications are available on the Linux platform. This article explores such topics as becoming a digital video editing master and turning your Linux machine into a Home Theatre.
To provide insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux video applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses. Most of the titles included in this feature are desktop applications with an elegant graphical front-end, although we have not neglected console software.
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Member since:2005-07-26
Hey, thanks for that. Didn't know about XBMC.
I'd like to add "oxine" to that list. It's not as packed with features as say XBMC/Freevo etc, but it is a "light" media player perfect for a "minimal" media center box.
Personally, i've been running freevo for a year or two now as a dedicated media center, hooked up to a tv+remote, and i'm rather pleased with it.
Member since:2006-04-28
Another one they forgot and that's always been a mystery to me is Jahshaka (http://jahshaka.org). It's always looked (haven't used it) like a powerful tool to me for video editing (especially for effects), but it seems to be quite unknown and hardly used by anyone, even if it's been around for quite a long time. Maybe someone knows more about it?
Member since:2005-07-06
Well I'll admit I haven't looked at jahshaka for quite a while, but I did follow the project quite closely for a while. The latest binary release on Sourceforge is from October 3, 2006 so I don't think much has happened since I last looked.
Basically they had lots of grand ideas, not very much working code and even less documentation. I really wanted to be able to use it since it sounded like an amazing app, and the developers seemed to have great ambitions for the project. But basically it never really worked. It was awkward to use, had very few features and crashed too often to be usable.
Which was all a great shame since a good compositing and motion graphics tool is really missing in the OSS portfolio.
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2005-10-15
XBMC for linux is really starting to get some where.
I got hooked on the xbmc interface on my old xbox. But have now managed to replace my xbox with a ubuntu pc running xbmc.
oh incase some havent noticed there is a ppa for xbmc
so you dont need to compile it any more.