Adobe Soundbooth (formerly Adobe Audition)
Audacity is free, open
source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X,
Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity
to: record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs,
edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds
together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more
Ardour is a digital audio
workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can
produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas
about music and sound. Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording,
non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a
powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and
hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal.
Adobe Encore (formerly Adobe EncoreDVD)
DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD
authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create
professional-looking DVDs. You can drag and drop MPEG files directly, create
NTSC/PAL menus, import image file for background, place text and images anywhere
on the menu screen, change font/color, put buttons, change font and colors, copy
and paste any menu object you can set chapters for each movie, change post
command for each movie.
Apple iTunes, Microsoft Windows Media Player and Winamp
Amarok is the music player for
Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. Amarok utilizes your existing album
covers and displays them nicely in Context browser. If you do not have a cover,
Amarok can download the appropriate one from the internet. It automatically
downloads and stores lyrics for your songs, thanks to the advanced and flexible
scripting system. Amarok is one of the first applications which featured
Wikipedia integration.
musikCube is an mp3 player for
the modern generation. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while
offering innovative features not seen elsewhere. For the technical user,
musikCube is based on an embedded SQL database engine known as sqlite. For the
non technical user, that means its fast. Really fast. "Dynamic playlists" allow
fully automatic, randomized playback of songs based on your observed listening
habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable,
user reorderable playlists. Cube also makes transferring audio between home and
work very easy with it's unique support for removable storage devices. A
"removable storage device" is any flash memory, thumb drive, or portable mp3
player that acts as a hard disk when you plug it in.
Banshee allows to
import, organize, play, and share your music using its simple, powerful
interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio
and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee also has support
for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.
Songbird is a desktop Web
player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports
extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®,
cross-platform and open source.
CyberLink PowerDVD and InterVideo WinDVD
VLC media player is a
highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1,
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various
streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or
multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
MPlayer is a
movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most
MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT,
NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native,
XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5
and even WMV movies. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of
supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA
(on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level
card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support
software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer
supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the
Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+.
Fraps
Taksi is a utility that
allows you to take screenshots and record video clips of your favourite games
and other 3D-graphics applications. Taksi aims to provide an open source
alternative to that great tool. Taksi can support live video compression with
any VFW video codec your system has installed (i.e. XVid, DivX, MS Mpeg4, etc).
Supports user-specified key mapping, allowing user to assign almost any key to a
particular function (such as video start/stop, screenshot trigger, etc.).
Runtime re-mapping of the keys is supported via GUI: user can change keys
without having to restart the game.
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
MythTVis a homebrew PVR project
that I've been working on in my spare time. It's been under heavy development
for almost four years, and is now quite useable and featureful. It has support
for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings. It compresses
video in software using rtjpeg (from Nuppelvideo) or mpeg4 (from libavcodec).
Full support for Hardware MPEG-2 encoder cards (Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350).
Preliminary support for DVB cards and the new pcHDTV tuner card.
MediaPortal is an Open
Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media
Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio,
watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a
digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source
software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your
own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.
Freevo allows you to
manage your entire digital media collection - music, videos, photos etc. via a
remote controlled TV interface and through the built in web interface you can
also access your media, view your TV guide and schedule recordings from anywhere
in the world. The benefit of freevo above other HTPC solutions is that freevo is
100% DRM free, plays video in 99.99% of formats, and most of all puts you in
control of the television. As an open-source home theatre PC platform, Freevo
employs a number of open-source audio/video tools, MPlayer and/or Xine are used
to play audio and video files in most popular formats. Freevo can be used both
for a standalone HTPC computer with a TV+remote, as well as on a regular desktop
computer or laptop using the monitor and keyboard.
Nero Recode
HandBrake is an open-source,
GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available
for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Supported sources:any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS
folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods
other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party
software), and some .VOB and .TS files, PAL or NTSC, AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG
audio tracks.
Steinberg Cubase
Ardour is a digital audio
workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can
produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas
about music and sound. Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording,
non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a
powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and
hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been
looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might
have found it.
Rosegarden is a
professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music
composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive
application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students,
and small studio or home recording environments.
Frinika is an open
source (GPL), complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX
Tiger and other operating systems running Java 1.5 (J2SE5.0). It features
sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording. Frinika is
compact, self-contained and simple - yet powerful enough to boost your musical
creativity. Launch
Frinika now!
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