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- Analogue
Video to DVD HOWTO - Anne Wilson's comprehensive
explanation of Linux video production using video capture
cards, mjpegtools, Linux Video Studio, DVDAuthor, Xine,
Audacity, and dvd+rw tools or dvdrecord/cdrecord
-
.ape files - Playing .ape audio files on Linux
- ASF
- Linux support for Microsoft's ASF video format
- AV FAQ -
Linux Audio/Video FAQ at the doom.9.org Linux forum, a
comprehensive guide to AV software for (somewhat) technical
*ix users
-
Consumer Video to DVD - Consumer Video to DVD under
GNU/Linux HOWTO, by Ross Bernheim
- DVD
Ripping and transcoding - HOWTO on extracting and
converting data from video DVDs
- DVD+RW
authoring - HOWTO on creating video DVD+RW discs on
Linux
- DV to DVD
HOWTO - HOWTO by Florin Andrei on converting digital
video material to DVD
- iTunes -
Linux access to iTunes Music Store. Also covers iPod access,
and DAAP server implementations.
- MJPEG
HOWTO - Praschinger Bernhard's HOWTO for the MJPEG-Tools
package
- MP3
Tags - Good applications for editing MP3 id3 tags
- OSS-DVD
HOWTO - Tips on burning DVD-R discs using the OSS-DVD GUI
front-end with the dvd+rw-tools command-line utilities
- QuickTime
- Playing (various types of) QuickTime (.mov) files
- RealAudio to
MP3 - Converting a RealAudio stream to MP3 via mplayer
(see comments for an improved method using a named pipe; use
transcode for similar problems with video streaming)
- RealPlayer
- Playing RealAudio and RealVideo
(.rm/.ra/rstp/rdp/rtp/SMIL/RAM) files.
- Sound
Capture - Apps to capture and digitise sound from a line
input, e.g., from LPs
- Sound
Utilities - Utilities to record and to convert various
sound formats
- Transcode
- Detailed example of how to use Transcode utilities to
shrink commercial video DVD contents, to create backup
copies.
-
Transcode - Transcode and other utilities to
encode/compress video on Linux
- Video Apps
- LWN Grumpy Editor's guide to Linux video, part 1
- Video Apps
- LWN Grumpy Editor's guide to Linux video, part 2
-
Video Apps - LinuxLinks list of 42 open-source video
applications for Linux
-
Video Capture - How to separately log to disk any video
stream VLC is capable of playing
- Video
Editing - State of open source video editing software as
of April 2008, per author Rui Lopes
- Video
Files Support - Overview of motion-video client side file
support on Linux
-
Video Streaming Servers - Options for Streaming
video/audio from Linux (server side)
- Windows
Media - Playing Windows Media Player and Advanced
Streaming Format, formerly Active Streaming Format
(.asf/.asx/.wmv/.asf/.asx/.wm/.wmx/.wmp/.wma/.wax/.avi)
files.
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