Open Source Video Capture

VirtualDub is a video capture / processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. It is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images. 

Compatible: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista/7. Download 1,63 Mbyte. There is no native version for Mac OS X or Linux.

VirtualDub helps you get video into your computer.

If your capture device is Video for Windows compatible, then VirtualDub can capture video with it.  But VirtualDub isn't your average capture program:

• Fractional frame rates.  Don't settle for 29 or 30 when you want 29.97.
• Optimized disk access for more consistent hard disk usage.
• Create AVI2 (OpenDML) files to break the AVI 2GB barrier and multiple files to break the FAT32 4GB limit.
• Integrated volume meter and histogram for input level monitoring.
• Real-time downsizing, noise reduction, and field swapping.
• Verbose monitoring, including compression levels, CPU usage, and free disk space.
• Access hidden video formats your capture card may support but not have a setting for, such as 352x480.
• Keyboard and mouse shortcuts for faster operation.  To capture, just hit F6.
• Clean interface layout: caption, menu bar, info panel, status bar.

VirtualDub lets you clean up video on your computer.

There are lots of programs that let you "edit" video.  And yet, they're frustratingly complex for some of the simplest tasks.  VirtualDub isn't an editor application; it's a pre- and post-processor that works as a valuable companion to one:

• Reads and writes AVI2 (OpenDML) and multi-segment AVI clips.
• Integrated MPEG-1 and Motion-JPEG decoders.
• Remove and replace audio tracks without touching the video.
• Extensive video filter set, including blur, sharpen, emboss, smooth, 3x3 convolution, flip, resize rotate, brightness/contrast, levels, deinterlace, and threshold.
• Bilinear and bicubic resampling -- no blocky resizes or rotates here.
• Decompress and recompress both audio and video.
• Remove segments of a video clip and save the rest, without recompressing.
• Adjust frame rate, decimate frames, and 3:2 pulldown removal.
• Preview the results, with live audio.

Link: download an open source software video capture, free video editing.

Best Open Source Video Audio Player

The award-winning OpenSource media player available for Windows now!

SMPlayer, more than 192 Video- and 85 Audiocodecs are supported natively!
For maximum performance the package includes optimized MPlayer binaries for various CPU types. Furthermore the Full-Package includes the Binary Codec Package to enable even more audio/video formats.
Everything in one self-contained download :-)

The Light-Package is a stripped-down version of this package, that includes MPUI and the MPlayer binaries only.

Occasionally your Antivirus program may mistakenly detect "malware" (virus, trojan, worm, etc.) in some of the files here. This is called a "false-positive" and the files are actually innocent/clean. It´s an error in your specific Antivirus software.

Disponible a portable version of MPlayer, no install!

 Some features:

    * Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
    * Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
    * Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
    * Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
    * Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
    * Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
    * Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
    * Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
    * Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
    * Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
    * Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
    * Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
   * SMPlayer is under the GPL license.

Compatible: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/ Windows 7 - Linux. Download 27.10

Link: download best OpenSource Player, Mplayer

Extract Video from Browser Cache

VideoCacheView is a freeware that can extract and save, after watching a video in a Web site, a video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser´s cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.

VideoCacheView scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it.

It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser´s cache.

Compatible Win 98/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista. Download 67,9 Kbytes.

In Windows 7 - If you want to extract files from the "Temporary Folder" and UAC is turned on, you must run VideoCacheView as administrator (Right click VideoCacheView and then choose "Run As Administrator"). For saving downloaded video files from the cache of the Web browsers, you can also run VideoCacheView without Administrator rights. 

Link: download Freeware to extract Video from Browser Cache.

Codecs Pack for Windows Vista

Free Codecs Pack Windows Vista, this package does not contain a media player. This package does not associates filetypes. With this package installed, you will be able to use any media player to play DVD´s, movies and video clips such as quicktime, realmedia, avi, mpeg, Flv, swf, wmv, etc. Streaming video can be played within web browsers. By default, you shouldn´t need to make any adjustments to enjoy playback immediately. The Vista Codec Package is compatible with all versions of Windows XP.

Users now have the ability to choose what is installed using the public redistributable and after an unattended install, you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. Future releases will recognize previous releases and perform upgrade installations.

This package contains QuickTime components with the tray icon permanently disabled.

This package currently supports 15 localized installations: the default install is English including support for the following other languages; Chinese Simplified/Traditional, Japanese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Polish and Turkish.

Download 20,3 Mbyte. Freeware and compatible NT/200x/XP/Vista.

Link: download Free Codecs Pack Windows Vista.

DVD Mp3 Ripper

Free DVD MP3 Ripper can extract audio from DVD, VCD/SVCD and MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) files into MP3 which can be played in MP3 Players.

Free DVD MP3 Ripper is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Features:

    * It's clean and free, without any adware or spyware.

    * It's stable and fast.

    * It supports DVD movie files(*.vob), VCD/SVCD movie files(*.dat) and MPEG(MPEG-1, MPEG-2) files(*.mpeg, *.mpg).

    * By choosing the start and end point visually, you can fine tune the selection of the source video file to extract into MP3.

    * It uses up-to-date and high quality libraries to encode MP3.

    * It's not affected by any DVD copy protection.

    * The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.

System Requirements:

    * Windows 98/ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

    * Pentium-compatible processor

    * 32 MB RAM (128 MB suggested)

    * 10 MB free hard disk space (for installation)

    * 800x600 screen resolution

    * DirectX 8.0 or higher  Download 1 Mbyte

Link: download freeware to rip Mp3 from DVD

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Free Playstation video conversion

PSP Video 9, a free PSP video conversion and management application. This good freeware can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into Paystation video files, as well as manage/copy these Playstation video files between your PC and PSP.

When combined with another application, Videora + PSP Video 9 form the first PSPcasting solution, allowing you to download, convert and copy video to your PSP, automatically using BitTorrent and RSS technology.

Free Playstation Video Converter works with all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the PSP. It is available for Windows and Mac. Download 19,7 Mbyte.

LinK: download freeware Plastation Video Converter.

Freeware Media Converter Oxelon

Free media converter with the wide range of supported output formats and codecs.

The program allows to convert several files simultaneously, thus effectively utilizing multi-core processors. Another important feature is Windows integration. You can initiate conversion operations on media files directly from My Computer or Windows Explorer context menus.

Select media files, right click the files in a Windows Explorer window, then choose "Oxelon - Convert" from the context menu and pick the appropriate media format from the submenu.

Video formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DV, DVD MPEG2, FLV, GIF, MOV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, NUT, PSP, RAW YUV, RM, SVCD MPEG2, SWF, VCD MPEG1, VOB, M1V, M2V, M4V. Audio formats: AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MMF, MP2, MP3, OGG, VOC, WAV.

Video codecs: BMP, DV Video, FFV1, FFV HUFF, FlashSV, FLV, GIF, H261, H263, H263+, HuffYUV, JPEGLS, Theora, XviD, MJPEG, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MS MPEG4 V1/V2, PAM, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, RAW Video, Real Video 1/2, SGI, SNOW, SVQ1 Sorenson, Targa, TIFF, VP6, WMV1, WMV2, ZLIB.

Audio codecs: AC3, ADPCM IMA/MS/SWF/YAMAHA, FLAC, G726, AMR NB, AMR WB, AAC, MP3, MP2, PCM ALAW/MULAW, PCM Signed/Unsigned 8/16/24/32 bit, SONIC, VORBIS, WMA V1/V2.

Oxelon Media Converter is compatible Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista. Download 3.11 Mbyte.

Link: download a good freeware, Media Converter Oxelon

Free Video Editor

 

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well.

Link: Avidemux

Free DVD authoring application

 

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played on standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menusIt is Open Source Software and is completely free. 

Features 

* creation and burning DVD video with interactive menus 

* support of AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV and other file formats 

* support of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3 and other audio and video formats 

* support of multi-core processor v1.7.3 

* allows using MPEG and VOB files without reencoding, see FAQ 

* allows put files with different audio/video format on one DVD (support of titleset) 

* user-friendly interface with support of drag & drop 

* flexible menu creation on the basis of scalable vector graphic 

* import of image file for background 

* placing of buttons, text, images and other graphic objects anywhere on the menu screen 

* changing the font/color and other parameters of buttons and graphic object 

* scaling of buttons and graphic objects 

* coping of any menu object or whole menu 

* dvd scripting

Link: DvDStyler