Open Source Unix Shell Video Software

New version 0.5.2.1 Released December 29th 2025. Snowmix is a Swiss army knife tool for mixing live and recorded video and audio feeds. It supports 2D and 3D clipping, scaling and transparent overlay of video, png graphics and text. It supports animation of video, images and texts through native commands changing scale, placement, transparency and rotation. Animation and actions can also be controlled through native scripting and an embedded Tcl and/or Python interpreter. Snowmix is designed for control over low bandwidth links and can work as a standalone CLI based program. Control over both CLI and a TCP connections. Video input and outputs can be done through GStreamer pipelines or the GStreamer shmsrc/shmsink API. Supported for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Alma, CentOS, Fedora, Rocky, Mageia, Manjaro, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS and macOS/OS X. Free support in the discussion forum. See Snowmix in action on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowmix4video

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.

Some useful tools for copying, ripping, backing up, and creating DVDs under linux. - A tool to create DVD audio (a king of giant musical slideshow) - A tool to create rapidly nice DVD menus - A tool to manage subtitles format - A tool to encode video files into DVD compliant files Additionally, there is a script to tie mplayer, dvdbackup, dvdrip, vlc, handbrake, ddrescue, isoinfo, mkisofs, vobcopy, ffmpeg, and cdrecord into a simplified command line to create a robust DVD backup tool (dvdbak).

This project provides a tool to include in Inkscape. This tool gives to inkscape options to do easy 2D animations using the menu effects, and it's usefull to teach multimidia concepts to youngs and children. English version in march.

This software is a bash script which aims to allow end-users to convert dvd movies into avi files

Batchdvd2xvid is a shell script containing commandline functionality for 3-pass processing & convertion to xvid with mp3/ac3/ogg which allows very high (nearly manual) tweaking for optimal quality while still able to automate the process.

Traffic Sucks. CamGet is a bash script to download images from area traffic camera websites (such as http://www.dpwt.com). This script also adds timestamps to each image, converts image to desired format, and attempts to 'normalize' each image.

Cast Control is a fully featured shoutcast creation and web administration facility for radio hosts and really anyone with a desire to push buttons instead of spending lengthy sessions in shell.

This project aims to have a suite of scripts and GUI for capturing, converting and burning DV movies to CD (dvzeec) or DVD (dvzeec-dvd).

DVD Baker is an application designed to create a DVD slideshow with menus and effects, from either a gallery2 web gallery or hierarchical directory tree of images. Extra features include random autoplay, high quality transition effects, and audio support

DML - Digital Multimedia Library DML uses VoD (Video on Demand), which allows users to watch movies or listen to music to every time. DML is multi-user-capable Video- and Audiostreaming to every time Video- and Audioacall from a central server

Libre Software to manage audio/video connection from a PC to a libre hardware real time stethoscope hardware, developed to allow doctors make a remote diagnose in real time in isolated rural areas of developing countries or for medicine teaching

Framegrabbergtk is a script that grabs screenshots from a video file then creates a montage of them. Framegrabgtk is written in Bash and uses Zenity for a front-end.

java/shell combi to download ARD Tagesschau, Tagesthemen, Wochenspiegel, and Nachtmagazin offline. For everybody far away from home, where the live streams are unwatchable!

Bash script utilizing HandbrakeCLI to batch transcode specified source files with a specified Handbrake transcoding profile

Kamiware BashPodder (KBP) is a Podcast client in BASH based on BashPodder but with many functions added. Even functions no other podcast client has. Sutch as prioritising Podcasts, automatic Reencoding MP3's (or other files to mp3)

KmPg2 is a graphical MPEG2 encoder frontend, for producing 100% DVD compatible MPEG2 streams from any input video. It uses the powerful video processing tools and the encoder from the MJPEGTools project. Adding subtitles and AC3 streamcopy are supported.

LEG is the Linux Encoder Gui. It exist in order to make life easier for users to do file conversions, whether its converting plain avi to mpeg or performing dvd rips and converting to different media types like IPODs, SmartPhones, IPAQs, etc.

The Linux Video Project attempts to create a LiveSystem which boots on any x86 system, initializes its hardware (most notably sound), and plays video on that system. It uses the ROCK Linux Distribution Build Kit for building the live-system.

This bash-script checks a directory for Matroska video files and uses mkvextract (from the mkvtoolnix package) to extract SSA/ASS-Subtitle files and encodes them in a videofile playable by mobile devices.

MobileMate is an open source video and audio converting tool customized on Tinycore Linux. It use Bash to glue open source tools such as Mplayer, FFmpeg(Libav), Zenity, Grep, Sed, etc.. It features as a self-booting tiny linux, can easy expand to your language, small size, easy to custom as your needs, etc..

Mtv.it Video Downloader ti consente di scaricare i contenuti di Mtv.it e offre una comodissima interfaccia grafica a RTMPSRV, che può essere usata per scaricare da siti simili (Mtv.com, BBC...). E' basato su RTMPDUMP 2.4

"Personal Web Radio Streaming Player" to streaming up Webradios on the /bin/bash under openSUSE 11.0

SPBLinux: modular mini distribution running completely in RAM, can be booted from USB, based on Busybox and Midnight Commander, optional with DirectFB and (since version 2.1) Mozilla; it is possible to create/modify own modules inside SPBLinux.

Create DVD-compatible slideshow video, flash video, or just plain vanilla MPEG video from still images. Includes a graphical user interface for assembling slides in a timeline fashion, manipulating transitions, and adding title slides and a soundtrack.