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aTunes - free opensource java based Audio player & Manager

Posted by admin on 27th September 2008

aTunes is a multi-platform Java based fully featured audio player and audio manager aTunes supports Windows, Linux, Unix operating systems. aTunes currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags on the audio files, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

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Elisa - open Media center, multimedia player for openSUSE Linux

Posted by admin on 10th September 2008

Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player. While primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, elisa also currently support Microsoft Windows. Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intel’s ViiV systems.

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Clive - Download videos from YouTube & other video sharing websites

Posted by admin on 14th August 2008


clive is an open source command line tool to extract videos and to bypass the need to use Adobe Flash in order to view user-generated content available on video-sharing websites. Clive supports Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, metacafe, Guba, Sevenload, Myvideo. Clive converts the downloaded Flash Video into a MP4 file avoiding the need of having a Flash Video Player.

Thanks to Pascal Bleser who suggested this tool!

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Miro - Free OpenSource Internet TV & Video player

Posted by admin on 21st May 2008


Miro 1.2 is a free opensource Video and InternetTV player which can play almost all known standard video formats and play online video contents. Some of the video formats include MPEG, Quicktime,AVI, H.264,Divx,Windows Media, Flash Video. Miro is great to watch online video contents like contents from Youtube.

Features include

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How to install and Configure Real player in OpenSuse

Posted by admin on 26th January 2008


RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the open source Helix player. The Helix Community is an open collaborative effort among multimedia enthusiasts to develop and extend the Helix DNA platform. The community offers a collaborative, consensus based development process, with an extensive and diverse ecosystem of developers all involved in creating world class multimedia enabled applications. The Helix Community was created in July of 2002 by Real to help the industry standardize on an open digital media platform. 

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