The Best Free Linux Video Software.

There is an sizeable amount of free video software available on the Linux platform which is both fully featured and mature. Become a digital video editing master, turn your Linux machine into a Home Theatre box are two options that are explored in this article.

To provide an 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.

It's worth mentioning that there are a number of Linux distributions that specialise in multimedia and digital content creation platforms. These include 64 Studio, DeMiDi, dyne_bolic and Ubuntu Studio.

Now, let's explore the 42 video applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.

Players
Gnash	Flash movie player
Kaffeine	Full featured media player for KDE
KMPlayer	Basic audio/video viewer application for KDE
Miro	A platform for Internet television and video
MPlayer	Extremely powerful movie player
Ogle	DVD player that supports DVD menus
SMPlayer	Qt based MPlayer front-end
Totem	Official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment
VLC	Portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats
xine	Powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback
Personal Video Recorders
Moovida	Cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple to use
Freevo	Manage your entire digital media collection
LinuxMCE	Media PC / HTPC (Home Theater PC) similar to Windows XP Media Center
MythTV	Provides a Home Theatre convergence box
Media Collection Managers
GCStar	Manages personal collections
Griffith	Movie collection manager application
Tellico	KDE application for organizing your collections
Editors
Avidemux	Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks
Celtx	Screenwriting software for writing and formatting a screenplay
Cinelerra	3 main functions: capturing, compositing, and editing audio/video
Kdenlive	Non-linear video editor for KDE
Kino	Non-linear DV editor
LiVES	Video Editing System designed to be simple to use, yet powerful
Open Movie Editor	Non-linear video editor designed for basic movie making capabilities
Video Samplers
Veejay	Visual instrument and realtime video sampler
Video Streaming
MPEG4IP	End-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia
FreeJ	Digital instrument for video livesets with realtime rendering of multilayered video
Animation
Blender	3D content creation suite
Stopmotion	Create stop motion animations
Webcam
Cheese	Use your webcam to take photos and videos
HasciiCam	Serves live ascii video over the net
Encoding and Conversion
FFmpeg	Real time audio/video encoder/converter, streaming server
HandBrake	Multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter
MEncoder	Simple movie encoder, designed to encode MPlayer-playable movies
thin liquid film	Convert videos to the Ipod format
transcode	Console based tools for transcoding video and audio files
DVD Authoring & Ripping
DeVeDe	Create video DVDs, suitables for home players, from any number of video files
DVDStyler	Cross-platform DVD authoring application
Q DVD-Author	GUI frontend for dvdauthor and related tools
Thoggen	DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper'), based on GStreamer and Gtk+
Tools
dvgrab	Receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via an IEEE1394
recordMyDesktop	Captures audio-video data of a desktop session

source: Distrowatch

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