Open Source Unix Shell Multimedia Software for Linux

VirtualGL redirects 3D commands from a Unix/Linux OpenGL application onto a server-side GPU and converts the rendered 3D images into a video stream with which remote clients can interact to view and control the 3D application in real time.

SwiftShader is Google’s high-performance CPU-based implementation of the Vulkan 1.3 graphics API, designed to provide a hardware-independent rendering solution for 3D graphics. Unlike traditional GPU drivers, SwiftShader executes graphics commands entirely on the CPU, making it ideal for environments where dedicated graphics hardware is unavailable or unsuitable. It acts as a drop-in replacement for Vulkan drivers, allowing existing applications to run seamlessly by redirecting API calls through its software-based rendering engine. The project supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and ChromeOS, offering broad cross-platform compatibility. SwiftShader’s design emphasizes both performance and compliance, enabling robust software rendering for testing, virtualization, and cloud-based graphics workloads.

Vidiot is a non-linear video editor targeted for home video editing. It supports compositing (scaling/rotating/positioning), cropping, changing speed, adding transitions and titles, trimming, key frames, etc.

Firmware loaders for M-Audio/Midiman USB MIDI and Audio devices

A whole bunch of utilities for primitive manipulation of graphic images. Wide array of converters from one graphics format to another. E.g. from g3 fax format to jpeg. Many basic graphics editing tools such as magnifying and cropping.

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.

LPub3D is an Open Source WYSIWYG editing application for creating LEGO® style digital building instructions. LPub3D is developed and maintained by Trevor SANDY. It uses the LDraw™ parts library, the most comprehensive library of digital Open Source LEGO® bricks available (www.ldraw.org/ ) and reads the LDraw LDR and MPD model file formats. LPub3D is available for free under the GNU Public License v3 and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS Operating Systems. LPub3D is also available as a Linux 'no-install', multi-platform AppImage. Portions of LPub3D are based on LPUB© 2007-2009 Kevin Clague, LeoCAD© 2025 Leonardo Zide, LDView© 2025 Travis Cobbs & Peter Bartfai and additional third party components. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this application. © 2015-2025 Trevor SANDY

SPTK is a suite of speech signal processing tools for UNIX environments, e.g., LPC analysis, PARCOR analysis, LSP analysis, PARCOR synthesis filter, LSP synthesis filter, vector quantization techniques, and other extended versions of them.

Converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).

OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center) is a free, embedded, source-based operating system providing a complete media center software suite. OpenELEC is a small and fast-booting Linux distribution.

XdTV allows you to watch, record & stream TV. It interacts with AleVT & Nxtvepg & supports the bttv, bktr & dvb APIs. It contains some deinterlacing filters and record video with various containers (AVI, MPEG, OGG..) and many codecs (FFMpeg, XviD, Ogg..)

SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.

Dreamos is an operating system developed on Sega Dreamcast to be ported to an array of embedded devices. The goal of the project is to be able to run non-ported Unix programs on the Sega Dreamcast and other embedded devices with ease and POSIX compliance

GeeXboX for Wii is the linux-based media center GeeXboX ported to run on Nintendo Wii game console. Major features of current GeeXboX for Wii: audio/video playback, picture viewing, file sharing and transfer over ethernet and bluetooth.

Podracer is a podcast aggregator that gets the enclosures from a list of podcast feeds and stores them in a specified location. It supports BitTorrent, http and ftp downloads and runs best as a cron job to retrieve podcasts throughout the day.

fbsplash is a userspace implementation of a splash screen for Linux systems. It provides a graphical environment during system boot using the Linux framebuffer layer. It follows a design policy of being simple, lightweight and fast.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

GeeXboX is a standalone media player Linux distribution, based on MPlayer. It's a small bootable LiveCD which allows you to play your favorites multimedia (audio/video/images) files. It works on x86 and PPC computers.

The littleutils include duplicate file finders (repeats, repeats.pl, repeats.py), image optimizers (opt-jpg, opt-png, opt-gif, recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase, uppercase, pren), archive recompressors (to-gzip, to-bzip2, to-bzip3, to-7zip, to-lzma, to-lzip, to-xz), a tempfile utility (tempname), file property tools (filedate, filemode, filenode, fileown, filesize, and lrealpath), and others. See the README file for more details.

Linux based car MP3 distribution which takes input from a numeric keyboard. LCD output is supported but optional. In every case there is audio feedback. It is possible to jump directly to any device, album and song.

A unified open source software platform based on Linux for mobile smart phone. The first stage features are call, sms, address book, multimedia, J2ME, application install, and smart phone full feature set, something like MS smart phone.

AEBL Mobile Media Player, changing how we consume media. AEBL is a media player and a digital media platform in use in the IHDN XPO network media system ( http://www.ihdn.ca/Xpo_VI.html ). AEBL is foremost a mobile media distribution and playback framework. It was created to be the core technology that is used in a television ad insertion and digital sign, and further development has opened up many more applications. It currently is designed to run on a raspberry Pi, although it is being ported to other systems. The AEBL blog is located here: http://aeblm2.blogspot.ca/ For those interested in trying it out, you will need a Raspberry Pi (should be the B series with 512MB) and a SD card (4GB or higher, recommend base 8GB but the larger, the better, for content storage). The current image is a ~680MB 7zip compressed file of it's original 2.7GB size, located on dropbox, here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lj0r6yia4tsnz8w/140815-aeblpi.img.7z?dl=0

Automatic command line CD ripper and ogg encoder along with freedb.org client. It tries to connect to freedb.org server to get CD info. If no info is found a text file may be provided instead. Also supports FLAC and MP3 (ID3 tag).

Cerebrate provides mechatronic control code for artists. Created for "Fernandez", an autonomous cactus by Vincent Kohler and Roland Philippsen, in 2005 for "Science and City" in Geneva. Later additions are "Blink" and "Ibou" (2006) and "Haiko"

Graphical interface for the popular podcatching shell script bashpodder, for the Gnome desktop.