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: Mon, 20/02/2012 - 11:55 | webupd8.org
VLC 2.0 "Twoflower" has been released with faster decoding, support for more video formats, a reworked web interface, experimental BluRay Discs support (without menus) and more.
Thu, 09/02/2012 - 16:44 | webupd8.org
Movgrab is a command line tool for downloading video clips from websites such as YouTube, Daily Motion, Break.com, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Liveleak and others.
- proxy support
- write the download to std-out so you can easily play the video in an external application
- lets you pick the preferred video/audio formats for sites that offer more than one
- generic downloader which means Movgrab might be able to download videos from other websites not listed as supported
- can resume downloads (use "-r" - only works when writing a single file)
- fork into background (use "-b" flag)
- written in straight C so it has no dependencies
Full list of supported websites:
Thu, 05/01/2012 - 19:44 | webupd8.org
Minutube, a simple application which you can use to download and play YouTube videos without Flash, has reached version 1.7.
Among the most important changes in Minitube 1.7 are:
- Clickable usernames in the playlist (so you can see more videos from a certain user/channel)
- "Manually start playing" option
- "Stop after this video" option
- Window "Float on Top" option
- Ability to skip to the previous video
The new version also supports passing an YouTube URL or even a search query via command line which means you can for instance create an Unity lens that opens videos in Minitube (like the one for VLC), browser extensions, etc.
Wed, 21/12/2011 - 17:52 | webupd8.org
ffDiaporama is a multi-platform application for creating videos from photos or movie clips. It supports various transition effects, titles/annotations, music and more.
The application has been created by one of the Videoporama developers (by the way, the Videoporama development has stopped), but unlike Videoporama, ffDiaporama is written in C++ instead of Python.
- supports images, videos and music (wav, mp3 or ogg)
Thu, 21/07/2011 - 11:18 | webupd8.org
If your webcam doesn't work (it's not detected) with the new Google Plus Hangouts or with Google Talk Video, here's a possible way to get it working.
Before proceeding, make sure Google Talk plugin is installed.
Both Google Plus Hangouts and Google Chat Video use the Google Talk Plugin for which we'll apply a 'fix' similar to an old Skype work-around (preloading v4l1compat.so):
Ubuntu 32bit:
sudo apt-get install libv4l-0
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real
echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real" | sudo tee -a /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo chmod +x /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPluginUbuntu 64bit:
sudo apt-get install lib32v4l-0
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real
echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real" | sudo tee -a /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo chmod +x /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
Arista Transcoder is a really cool video converter for GNOME. It comes with a huge list of presets: from iPod, iPhone, PSP, Playstation 3 to Android, Nokia, DVD and lots more. It supports MP4, WebM, Matroska, AVI, Ogg, FLV (codecs - video: H.264, VP8, MPEG4 / DivX, MPEG2, Theora, Flash Video / audio: AAC, Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Speex, WAV) formats and it can rip straight from DVD or v4l (Video 4 Linux) devices too.
A new Arista Transcoder version (0.9.7) was released yesterday with a revamped user interface ( now you can click on a device in the "Live preview" to select the preset for it), the ability to edit and manage device presets, export presets and lots of small fixes.
(Arista - Live Preview)
