Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 15th Jul 2008 12:29 UTC, submitted by linuxlinks
Linux 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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RE: They forgot XBMC
by Luis on Tue 15th Jul 2008 14:19 UTC in reply to "They forgot XBMC"
Luis
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?

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RE[2]: They forgot XBMC
by dagw on Tue 15th Jul 2008 15:15 in reply to "RE: They forgot XBMC"
dagw 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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