Multimedia
List of software to turn your PC into a media center:
| Name (link to producer) | License | Description |
| VideoLan player | Open Source | Multimedia player and streamer files free. |
| AVS DVD Player | Freeware | AVS DVD Player is a compact program and easy to use, with a simple graphical interface that lets you watch your DVD movies without needing additional software. |
| The Gimp | Open Source | The GIMP is the GNU program for managing images. E 'freely distributable software suitable for photo retouching, image composition and creation. |
| Audacity | Open Source | Audacity ® is a free open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU / Linux and other operating systems. |
| VirtualDub | Open Source | A new version of VirtualDub, the popular program free (GPL) dedicated to video editing. With this software you can capture it, and break movies elaborated particularly large. |
| MediaCoder | Open Source | MediaCoder to transcode audio / video in batch mode, putting together several open source software in an easy to use. For the video side, MEncoder is used, for audio, MPlayer and Winamp input plugins as decoders, various encoders and integrated. |
| Avi2Dvd | Freeware | Avi2Dvd is a all-in-one that lets you convert in a few clicks an AVI / OGM / MKV / WMV / DVD in a DVD / SVCD / VCD. Supports multiple audio streams and up to three subtitles. Since version 0.3.4 it supports DV video, so it can handle filming captured by digital cameras. Avi2Dvd can also produce easily semi-professional menus with buttons to chapters / audio / subtitles. E 'software that uses only 100% freeware utility freeware. |
| Huffyuv | Open Source | Huffyuv is a fast lossless video codec, this means that compression is done without any loss of quality. The codec is so fast that you can reach 38MB per second on a Celeron 416! The purpose of Huffyuv is to replace uncompressed YUV in the field of video capture. |
| IMGV | Open Source | IMGV im image viewer is open source. Written entirely in Python, is extremely versatile. |
| mp3DirectCut | Freeware | MpeDirectCut is a handy program that lets you cut and edit the compressed files to mp3 without having to make the conversion. |
| GSpot | Freeware | GSpot gives information about the codecs needed to read / manage your video and audio files that are submitting, and tell us whether these codecs are present and functioning well in our system. It supports almost all media files, such as OGG, AVI, MPEG, FLV, MP4, DV1 / 2 & Raw DV. |
| Evil Player | Freeware | Evil Player is a lightweight player of the most popular audio formats. Supports themes and plugins. |
| Songbird | Open Source | Songbird is a media player open in the early stages of its development, although it is already being used in all its functions. Songbird is the result of a combination between a web browser and a digital jukebox. It 'an open source alternative to proprietary software such as iTunes, whose interface is partially inspired. Songbird is built on XULRunner platform created by Mozilla. For this reason, Songbird is developed and can therefore be used on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Also uses the VLC plugin for playback and SQLite as an engine for the media library. |
| MP3Gain | Open Source | MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so as to bring the same volume. MP3Gain does not make the simple normalization of the peaks, but a statistical analysis to determine how strong the current volume of the file to the human ear. Moreover, the changes are completely without loss of quality because the program adjusts the mp3 directly, without need to decode and recode. |
| DVD Flick | Open Source | DVD Flick is a program for DVD authoring, which can take several video files and convert a DVD readable on a DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema, with the ability to customize the audio tracks and subtitles. Otlre supports 45 file formats, over 60 video codecs, more than 40 audio codec. |
| SMPlayer | Open Source | SMPlayer is a new media player based sull'engine the famous MPlayer, which is able to play more audio and video formats known without need of external codecs. SMPlayer is available for Windows and Linux. |






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