Mon, 05/03/2012 - 10:34 | 
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ffDiaporama is a multi-platform application for creating videos from photos or movie clips. It supports various transition effects, titles/annotations, music and more.
ffDiaporama 1.2 introduces tags and chapters as well as lossless rendering. There are also more supported formats (flac, wma, etc.), performance improvements and bug fixes. Check out THIS page for a complete changelog.
Download ffDiaporama (There are no Ubuntu 12.04 packages yet)
Tags: Tue, 31/01/2012 - 12:57 | webupd8.org
SMPlayer may have been dead for a while, but it seems very active now, with two releases in just one month. The latest SMPlayer 0.7.0 brings basic support for YouTube and MPlayer2 as well as other new features.
- Mplayer2 support
- Use precise seeking with mplayer2. It can be enabled/disabled from Preferences > Interface
- Basic support for YouTube which allows you to open urls via Open > Url, or as a command line parameter. You can also drag and drop a link from a browser to the smplayer window.
- You can select the desired quality for YouTube videos under Preferences > Performance
- New favorite menu, where you can add your favorite videos, music, streams, etc. It's also possible to add submenus.
- New command line option: -disable-server which is used to disable the server used to communicate with other instances. You can use this to launch multiple SMPlayer instances
Tue, 03/01/2012 - 17:18 | webupd8.org
SMPlayer is a popular front-end for MPlayer and can play videos, DVDs and VCDs, featuring configurable subtitles, audio track switching, video equalizer, filters, playlist, aAudio and subtitles delay adjustment and much more.
After almost 2 years, a new SMPlayer version has been released: 0.6.10. The new version only brings some minor new features like:
- New vdpau configuration dialog
- New menu to select the closed caption channel (requires mplayer >= r32607)
- Possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative)
- Possibility to sort the items of the playlist
- Port for eCS, OS/2
SMPlayer could already use VDPAU (VDPAU allows video programs to offload portions of the video decoding process and video post-processing to the GPU video-hardware - Nvidia graphics cards only), but the new VDPAU configuration dialog lets you select the vdpau codecs to use:
Install SMPlayer 0.6.10 in Ubuntu
