Open Source Perl Video Software

GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license.

A comprehensive software suite for reading barcodes. Supports EAN/UPC, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code. Includes libraries and applications for decoding captured barcode images and using a video device (eg, webcam) as a barcode scanner.

A multimedia authoring and processing framework and a video playout server for television broadcasting.

AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD just one button click!

MoviX is a series of 3 tiny -live CD- Linux Distros aimed at MultiMedia playing. eMoviX makes a CD able to play by itself all audio/video files it contains (DivX, XviD, QuickTime, MP3 etc.). MoviX&MoviX2 transform in secs yr PC in a powerful MM box.

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features. Using LiVES, you can start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away. For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.

youtube-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, providing a command-line interface to search and play YouTube videos. It offers a minimalistic alternative to browsing YouTube through a web browser.​

Variations is a digital music library software system that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property.

This project is an attempt to provide the Linux community with kernel drivers for two hugely popular DVD playback cards namely DXR3 from Creative Labs and Hollywood Plus from Sigma Designs.

Generic reconfigurable scriptable plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox is Elphel project to use external programs for display EMBED or OBJECT tags. Supplied with perl script for embedding mplayer and mencoder to a browser and controlling it with Javascript.

Kalva is a lightweight videoapplication using MPlayer and MEncoder to do the real work (schedules via atd and crond). Kalva's main goal is to be quite simple to setup and easy to use. But apart from that it provides quite some useful features.

clive is a command line video extraction tool for Youtube and other similar video websites that require Adobe Flash for viewing the content.

perl2dvd is part of a video conversion plug-in for SageTV. A few of its uses are creating DVD's, cutting commercials, and compressing videos.

gDVDshrink is a simple tool to help you 'shrink' long double-layer DVD titles into single-layer 4.2 GB DVD-R medium

Vamps is a tool to help backing up DVDs: Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the video stream. Shrink ratio may be based on video only or on the full PS.

This is a frontend to ffmpeg and standard VCD/DVD ripping creation programs written in perl-gtk2. It is designed to enable (as seperate processes) ;VCD/DVD ripping;Any Media-transcoding that ffmpeg supports ;DVD creation

Kageki Software includes the best in modern technology in our streaming media server software. This allows users to achieve greater performance than existing multimedia streaming servers.

TivoTool allows you to download, stream, or burn videos from your Series 1 or 2 Tivo or DTivo. You can also send videos to iTunes for viewing on a video enabled iPod. The command line version consists of a subset of these functions and works on Linux.

Automatically sorts TV show episodes into an organised directory structure. Can optionally move non-episodes into a separate directory. Also optional integration with Kodi/xbmc (notification and library update). dir structure:[show]/[season x]/[eps]

Don't you hate the way you have to enter complicated command lines every 30 minutes when you're creating an avi (divx) cd? Well this program automates it.

The Dashboard Linux PC Project. A Linux UI for automobile multimedia. To be used for MP3's, GPS, DVDs, CD, etc.

EZ Transcoder is a wrapper for three pass encoding with mencode designed specifically for for transcoding existing MPEG2 files (such as those captured by a TV Capture card) to DivX/MPEG4 format. It is currently a perl console app.

Freecity is a "Freeplayer Modification" for the french ISP "Free". Free's customers have a so-called freebox plugged to your TV, that transforms it to a multimedia center.

Tivo2dvd creates and executes the series of commands required to access, format, and burn television shows from a Series II Tivo directly to a DVD. It supports processing multiple shows at once, to a DVD with menus.

An ffmpeg GUI for video encoding. Supports DVD and files and converts to all formats allowed by ffmpeg, including the iPod, PSP, and other popular formats.