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Multimedia softwares for Linux

For all Debian-Users go to debian multimedia repository(www.debian-multimedia.org) http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ Multimedia authoring tools : Cinnelera - best but too advance and technical. Avidemux - Virtualdub alternative for linux. KmPg2 - http://kmpg2.sourceforge.net/ - convert anything to MPEG-2 for DVD use. DVDAuthor Wizard - http://dvdauthorwizard.sourceforge.net/ - make DVD from MPEG-2 clips, with menus etc. Q-DVDAuthor Devede tovid transcode dvdrip (Perl frontend to transcode) mencoder (must have) subtitleripper xine (must have) ffmpeg (must have) Video players: mplayer - kmplayer, smplayer. (must have) vlc media player (must have) Kaffeine realplayer (must have) These four will mostly cover all of the video needs of an average Linux user. Music players: amarok (must have) audacious beep media player xmms2 - xmms is now only a backend. (must have) esperanza - frontend to xmms2.

Join avi files in linux

The easy way is to use avimerge. Still I include both methods. Method 1 : source : http://www.pembo13.com/linux/lcs/entries/12 Merge, join two or more avi files Prerequisites For all this to work you need the transcode package. So install (or make sure that it is there) yum install transcode Instructions 1. Open up a terminal 2. Go to the directory where the files are (this is just to make things simpler) 3. Assuming that the file you want the result to be is named foo.avi, and you have two smaller files you want to merge (in order) named foo1.avi and foo2.avi, enter the following command: avimerge -o foo.avi -i foo1.avi foo2.avi Method 2 : source : http://techtips.chanduonline.com/2006/08/15/how-to-join-multiple-avi-or-mpg-files/ How to join multiple .avi or .mpg files sudo apt-get install mencoder mplayer Now that the hard part is out of the way, we’re going to make use of the wonderful cat command. I’d renamed each Bloodspell video as b1.avi - b7.avi. Now to string the